Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the purchase of ammunition for the Division of Police from Kiesler Police Supply in the amount of $147,752.62. The Division of Police requests a purchase of 40-caliber ammunition for training, for the qualification of police officers and for practice. There is a significant lead time for ammunition orders; therefore, orders need to be placed now to ensure sufficient supply. Also, in this request is the need to purchase service ammunition as well as other ammunition that is needed. All of this ammunition can be ordered from the city’s universal term contract and amounts to several hundred thousand rounds of ammunition.
Bid Information: The Purchasing Office has set up universal term contract FL005746 with Kiesler Police Supply for these types of ammunition.
Kiesler Police Supply is not debarred according to the excluded party listing system of the Federal Government or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State Unresolved Findings for Recovery Certified Search.
Contract Compliance No.: 35-1361847-Kiesler Police Supply, Inc., expires 8/28/2016.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested so as to receive ammunition in a timely manner.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation authorizes a total expenditure of $147,752.62 from the General Fund for the purchase of ammunition for the Division of Police from a universal term contract. The Police Division budgeted $346,007.00 in the 2015 General Fund budget for the purchase of ammunition, of which, $99,873.00 has already been spent or encumbered. Approximately $301,000.00 was encumbered or spent in 2014 for ammunition.
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To authorize and direct the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order to Kiesler Police Supply, Inc. for the purchase of training and service ammunition for the Division of Police, to authorize the expenditure of $147,752.62 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($14...
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