Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Public Service to enter into a contract with Engage Public Affairs, LLC to provide project management training to Public Service staff.
The purpose of this contract is to create and present project management training to project managers, engineers and support staff in the Department of Public Service. The training will provide project managers the skills to ensure a complete and accurate project scope is developed, the project is completed accurately, on schedule and on budget, work is coordinated amongst various divisions, departments and other stakeholders, project decisions are documented, and consultant contracts are adequately managed.
Three training sessions will be held with approximately 60 employees from the Department of Public Service participating.
Searches in the Excluded Party List System (Federal) and the Findings for Recovery list (State) produced no findings against Engage Public Affairs, LLC.
2. WAIVER OF COMPETITIVE BIDDING
The Department of Public Service requests that a waiver of the competitive bidding requirements of Columbus City Code, in accordance with section 329 be authorized for this project. The consultant team that will be retained for this program is performing similar work for The Ohio Department of Transportation(ODOT) in regards to creating and presenting project management training. The ODOT training course material is largely what will be utilized, and requesting proposals to select another firm to create new training materials would not be time or cost effective. The expertise, time and manpower to create this training is not available in house.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested to provide this training at the earliest possible time to provide for increased efficiency of the Department of Public Service staff.
4. CONTRACT COMPLIANCE
The contract compliance number for Engage Public Affairs is 201593274 ...
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