Explanation
The purpose of this legislation is to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish a blanket purchase order for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage to obtain Sodium Hypochlorite in accordance with an established Universal Term Contract that expires March 31, 2011.
Sodium Hypochlorite is an approved chlorine solution used at the Southerly and Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plants to disinfect effluent prior to its discharge to the Scioto River. The Ohio EPA requires that plant effluent be disinfected from May 1 through October 31 of each year. The chemical is being purchase in accordance with the existing Universal Term Contract, FL003910 which expires 3-31-11.
SUPPLIER: Bonded Chemicals (61-1162384); Expires 8-18-10
FISCAL IMPACT: $305,000.00 is required and budgeted for this expenditure. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage has established two (2) purchase orders in the amount of $50,000.00. The total of $100,000.00 is the threshold per Columbus City Code for funding Universal Term Contracts without legislation.
$460,000.00 was spent in 2009
$264,000.00 was spent in 2008
$219,000.00 was spent in 2007
The company is not debarred according to the Excluded Party Listing System of the Federal Government or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State Unresolved Findings for Recovery Certified Search.
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To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish a Blanket Purchase Order with Bonded Chemicals from a Universal Term Contract for the purchase of Sodium Hypochlorite for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, and to authorize the expenditure of $305,000.00 from the Sewerage System Operating Fund ($305,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office established a Universal Term Contract, FL003910 which expires 3-31-11with Bonded Chemicals for the Purchase of Sodium Hypochlorite for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and
WHEREAS, the...
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