Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Service to modify and extend rental agreements with Premier Truck Sales and Rental, Inc. in the amount of up to $1,000,000.00 for the rental of refuse collection trucks to be used by the Division of Refuse Collection.
The Division of Refuse Collection (Division) is responsible for providing weekly refuse collection service to the 344,000 residential units within the City of Columbus. It is necessary to immediately rent refuse collection trucks to continue to provide timely refuse collection to the residents of Columbus. This will also allow the Division to be able to collect refuse during the normal work week hours and to avoid routinely scheduling mandatory overtime. The rental of these vehicles is expected to be needed for another year, possibly longer, in order to give time for the trucks that have been on order, and for the trucks that are about to be ordered, to be delivered to the City. An assessment of delivery times of the vehicles on order will be made in the spring of 2024. At that time it may be necessary to rent additional trucks to accommodate further deficiencies in the Division fleet due to the ongoing pandemic related production delays or to turn in some of the rentals pending delivery of vehicles on order.
Searches in the System for Award Management (Federal) and the Findings for Recovery List (State) produced no findings against Premier Truck Sales and Rental.
1.1 Amount of additional funds to be expended: $1,000,000.00
The original contract amount: $492,000.00 (PO354714, Ord. 2788-2022)
The total of Modification No. 1: $1,000,000.00 (This Ordinance)
The contract amount including all mods: $1,492,000.00
1.2 Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
Prior to the COVID pandemic it took nine to twelve months a...
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