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File #: 2813-2015    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/3/2015 In control: Public Utilities Committee
On agenda: 12/14/2015 Final action: 12/16/2015
Title: To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a contract with Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc., for the purchase of a Vibration Monitoring System for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and to authorize the expenditure of $69,920.00 from the Sewer System Operating Fund. ($69,920.00)
Attachments: 1. ORD#2813BidTab, 2. ORD#2813-2015Information, 3. ORD#2813-2015RecLetter

 

BACKGROUND:    This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a contract with Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. for the purchase and delivery of a Vibration Monitoring System for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage at the Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant.  The Vibration Monitoring System will be used throughout the Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant to monitor vibration pump and motor shafts.

 

The Purchasing Office advertised and solicited competitive bids in accordance with the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to competitive bidding (Solicitation SA006063).  Eleven (11) vendors (11 MAJ) were solicited and two (2) bids 2 MAJ were received and opened on October 22, 2015.  The Division of Sewerage and Drainage recommends an award be made to the lowest responsive and responsible and best bidder, Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. in the amount of $69,920.00.

 

The company 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. 

 

SUPPLIER:  Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc., Contract Compliance Number: 34-0117420, expires 05/28/17. 

 

FISCAL IMPACT:  $69,920.00 is budgeted and available for this purchase. 

 

$13,744.00 was spent in 2014

$0 was spent in 2013

 

 

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To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a contract with Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc., for the purchase of a Vibration Monitoring System for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and to authorize the expenditure of $69,920.00 from the Sewer System Operating Fund.  ($69,920.00)

 

 

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WHEREAS, the Vibration Monitoring System will be used at the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant to monitor vibration pump and motor shafts; and  

  

WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office opened formal bids on October 22, 2015 for the purchase of a Vibration Monitoring System for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and

 

WHEREAS, the Division of Sewerage and Drainage recommends an award to be made to the lowest responsive and responsible and best bidder, Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc.; and

 

WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities to authorize the Finance and Management Director to enter into a contract with Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc., in accordance with the terms, conditions and specifications of Solicitation Number: SA006063 on file in the Purchasing Office; now, therefore

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:

 

SECTION 1.  That the Director of Finance and Management be and is hereby authorized to establish a contract with Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc., 3855 Business Park Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43204-5007, for the purchase of a Vibration Monitoring System for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, in accordance with specifications on file in the Purchasing Office.

 

SECTION 2. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.

 

SECTION 3.  That the expenditure of $69,920.00 or as much thereof as may be needed is hereby authorized from Sewer System Operating Fund 650, Department 60-05, OCA Code 605030, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6651, to pay the cost thereof.

 

SECTION 4.  That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.