Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Directors of the Departments of Finance and Management and Public Safety to enter into contracts for various miscellaneous equipment needed for the Division of Police's new Crime Laboratory that is currently under construction on Woodrow Avenue. Items needed for the Crime Lab include network scanners, lab software and hardware, projector and various other equipment and services that are generally under $20,000.00 and involve multiple vendors. These miscellaneous items will be competitively bid, or acquired via quotes solicited from existing universal term contract vendors. This method of procurement will ensure that Capital Improvement Funds budgeted for the construction and outfitting of the new Crime Lab are properly legislated and available for the acquisition of the items needed.
Bid Information: The competitive bidding process for the purchase of these miscellaneous items will be followed and once competitive bids are received and/or quotes are solicited from existing universal term contract vendors, funds will be encumbered against the certificate.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested in order to conduct a transition of Crime Lab operations from their current location to the new building by the end of the year.
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $100,000.00 from the Safety Voted Bond Fund for the purchase of miscellaneous equipment from multiple vendors for the City's new crime laboratory building. Funds were budgeted in Public Safety's 2014 Capital Improvement Budget for the construction of the Crime Lab and the purchase of new equipment.
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To authorize the Directors of the Departments of Finance and Management and Public Safety to enter into contracts for the purchase of miscellaneous equipment from multiple vendors, for the new crime lab; to authorize the expenditure of $100,000.00 from the Safety Voted Bond Fund; and to declare an emergenc...
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