Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to establish blanket purchase orders for the Purchase of Polymer for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Southerly and Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plants in accordance with a Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office.
Polymer is used at both wastewater treatment plants as a sludge conditioner in the sludge dewatering process. Polymer is needed to change sludge into solid form and is fed into high speed centrifuges. The chemical is used all season and is an important component of the solids handling process at wastewater treatment plants. The Purchasing Office has established a Universal Term Contract FL004578 which expires March 31, 2013 for the purchase of Polymer with Polydyne, Inc.
Emergency legislation is being requested so that the wastewater treatment plants can purchase the chemical at the earliest convenience. Because of the importance of the chemical and the fact that the Universal Term Contract was just executed the Division of Sewerage and Drainage cannot wait the 30 day period to order the material. Without the Polymer the plants would only have one option for the disposal of the solids and that is through the land fill.
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.
SUPPLIER: Polydyne Inc (34-1810283) Expires 2-16-12
FISCAL IMPACT: $1,400,000.00 is needed and budgeted for this purchase. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage has established two (2) purchase orders in the amount of $50,000.00 each which is the threshold per Columbus City Code for funding Universal Term Contracts without legislation. With this legislation the Division of Sewerage and Drainage will have certified $1,500,000.00 in 2010.
$1,520,000.00 was spent in 2009
$1,150,000.0...
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