Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to modify a contract on behalf of the Facilities Management Division with Affordable Choice Electric for shoreline upgrades at Fire Station No. 4, 3030 Winchester Pike; Fire Station No. 6, 5750 Maple Canyon Drive; Fire Station No. 16, 1130 East Weber Road; and Fire Station No. 32, 3676 Gender Road. The contract was formally bid (SA003858). Legislation was not necessary earlier because the contract did not exceed $20,000.00. The contract term is April 1, 2013, through March 31, 2014. The contract encompasses all buildings under the purview of the Facilities Management Division.
This modification will allow the Facilities Management Division to address electrical upgrades at the City of Columbus fire facilities. Facilities Management has received work orders for shoreline upgrades and cannot perform the work in-house; therefore it is necessary to utilize an outside contractor for these upgrades. The Division of Fire has replaced various vehicles which require the vehicles to be “plugged in” via, a shoreline, to run their internal electrical systems, i.e. heavy duty rescue vehicles. The Shoreline is hung out of the way out of the ceiling and will release if the vehicle leaves the station without “unplugging it” manually. Shorelines have been used for years in all of the fire houses. The amperage of the vehicles has changed from 20 to 30 amps. The stations currently do not have enough power to allow the vehicles to operate as they need to. There are also stations where the GFI’s, ground fault interceptors, are tripping because of increased power needs.
Affordable Choice was chosen to perform the work because it has been the Facilities Management Divisions contractor for emergency service and repair of various building systems under the purview of the Facilities Management. Therefore it would not be in the best interest of the City to select another vendor to comp...
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