Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Technology (DoT) to enter into contract with various vendors for the purchase of a studio camera system with tele-prompters to be used by CTV. Through quality programming, CTV (Columbus’ government television channel) provides local citizenry with important information about Columbus City government and increases citizen access to city officials and staff. CTV programs highlight the civic and cultural landscape of Columbus through various weekly public-affairs shows and the airing of live government meetings and press conferences. To ensure that CTV can continue to provide high quality content, it is necessary to update and replace older, obsolete equipment.
On November 17th, 2022, bids to replace the above-described system were opened. Six bids were received, with four different vendors submitting low and responsive bids on different parts of the system. As such, DoT recommends that bids be awarded to B&H Foto and Electronics, iVideo Technologies, Focus Camera and Tarazi, LLC for up to $47,106.18, $49,287.68, $33,880.00, and $17,998.00 respectively. In most cases, the low bidder of an item was selected. However, on three of the items, an alternate product was bid by B&H. Since it was determined that the alternate products would not work with the system, bids in these cases were awarded to the next lowest bidder (iVideo and Tarazi). Other bidders (and their total bids) were as follows:
· Mr. Cheapo.com- $176,319.74
· Red Vest Supply- $182,803.94
This ordinance also authorizes Director of the Department of Technology to enter into contract with iVideo Technologies, LLC for the installation of the above-noted camera system. This vendor recently installed various other equipment in CTV’s studio control room, as authorized by ordinance 2669-2022. Because this vendor is quite knowledgeable on CTV’s control room structure, DoT wishes to contract with them again to install the new camera system. ...
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