Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Purchasing Office has established a Universal Term Contract for Powdered Activated Carbon with MeadWestvaco. The Division of Power and Water needs to establish a Blanket Purchase Order, based on this current contract, for the purchase of Powdered Activated Carbon during 2010.
Definition of use for each water treatment chemical
Powdered Activated Carbon-Total Organic Carbon
Vendor Contract # Contract Compliance #
MeadWestvaco (Powdered Activated Carbon) FL004285 31-1797999
Contract Compliance Exp. Date
MeadWestvaco February 13, 2011
FISCAL IMPACT: The Division of Power and Water has allocated $19,894,334.00 for Water Treatment Chemicals in the 2010 Budget.
$17,245,549.42 was expended in 2009.
$14,180,166.32 was expended in 2008.
Emergency Action is necessary so that a purchase order can be issued as soon as possible. The Division was notified in mid November that they will be required to feed Powdered Activated Carbon during a pilot project study at the Dublin Road Water Plant for at least one week in January. Without this emergency action, it is estimated that new funding could not be established until February 25, 2011.
Title
To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish a Blanket Purchase Order for Powdered Activated Carbon from an established Universal Term Contract with MeadWestvaco for the Division of Power and Water; to authorize the expenditure of $132,000.00 from Water Systems Operating Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($132,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has established a Universal Term Contract for Powdered Activated Carbon, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Power and Water, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to establish a Blanket Purchase Order for Powdered Activated Carbon based on the above mentioned Universal T...
Click here for full text