Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: The Purchasing Office is in the process of establishing Universal Term Contracts for water meters and appurtenances with the companies listed below. These items are needed for new customer installations and maintenance of existing meters. The contracts will be for approximately one year, expiring February 28, 2017, with the option to renew for one (1) additional year. The Purchasing Office opened formal bids on December 17, 2015.
The Division of Water would like to establish Purchase Orders, based on these pending contracts, to purchase said items in the amount of $1,975,000.00.
Vendor C.C.# / Expires MBE/FBE Amount
Master Meter, Inc. 75-1739575 - 2/18/18 MAJ $975,000.00
Neptune Technology Grp. 13-4192672 - 12/3/17 MAJ $556,000.00
Badger Meter, Inc. 39-0143280 - 10/19/17 MAJ $230,000.00
Metron-Farnier LLC 84-1328980 - 12/31/17 MAJ $214,000.00
Searches in the Excluded Party List System (Federal) and the Findings for Recovery list (State) produced no findings against these vendors.
2. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: It is requested that this Ordinance be handled in an emergency manner. The Department was waiting for initial UTC approvals via City Purchasing before starting legislation and current inventory is low.
3. FISCAL IMPACT: A transfer of funds within the Water G.O. Bonds Fund will be necessary, as well as an amendment to the 2016 Capital Improvements Budget.
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to establish Purchase Orders with various ...
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