Title
To authorize and direct the Finance Director to issue a purchase order to Med-Eng Systems, Inc. for the purchase of bomb suits and related equipment for the Fire Division Bomb Squad; to waive the provisions of competitive bidding; to authorize the expenditure of $32,008.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($32,008.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: This legislation is to authorize and direct the direct the Finance Director to issue a purchase order to Med-Eng Systems, Inc. for the purchase of bomb suits and related equipment for the Fire Division Bomb Squad.
Bid Information: Competitive bidding is being waived for this purchase. The only bid received had non-pirce errors, so the formal bid action was cancelled. The bid from Med-Eng Systems, Inc. is being considered on an informal basis.
Contract Compliance: 980160644
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested as funds are needed immediately for this purchase.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Budgeted Amount: Funds are available for this purchase in the Fire Division's 2003 General Fund Budget.
Body
WHEREAS, a need exists to purchase bomb suits and related equipment for the Fire Division Bomb Squad; and
WHEREAS, funds for this purchase were specifically budgeted within the Fire Division's General Fund Budget; and
WHEREAS, competitive bidding is being waived for this purchase; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to purchase said bomb suits and related equipment, for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
Section 1. That the Finance Director be and is hereby authorized and directed to issue a purchase order in the amount of $32,008.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to Med-Eng Systems, Inc. for the purchase of bomb suits and related...
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