Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: There is a need within the Public Safety Department, Fire Division to replace it's out of date Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) equipment originally purchased in 2003. This equipment provides firefighters with a constant source of breathable air necessary when fighting fires and responding to emergency incidents. This legislation will authorize and direct the City Auditor to transfer $4,126,480.90 from the Special Income Tax Fund to the Fire Safety Voted Bond Fund as a temporary funding measure, and will authorize and direct the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order for Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) and Supplied Air Respirators (SAR) for the Division of Fire from the existing universal term contract established by the City of Columbus Purchasing Office for that purpose.
Included in this ordinance is the purchase of Panasonic Toughbooks that will utilize Scott Safety Imperium software provided with the SCBA purchase to serve as mobile workstations that will provide real time incident accountability and air use management that will improve fireground safety; this ordinance will authorize and direct the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order to Insight Public Sector in the amount of $64,542.60 for the purchase of said Panasonic Toughbooks from an existing Cooperative State of Ohio Term Schedule Contract established for such purpose by the State of Ohio Department of Administrative Services Purchasing Office.
Bid Information: A City of Columbus Purchasing Office universal term exists with Scott Safety 52-1297376 for the purchase of Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) and Supplied Air Respirators (SAR); a State of Ohio Term Schedule Contract exists with Insight Public Sector 36-3949000 for the purchase of (State Term Schedule STS033 /OAKS Contract No. 534242). These companies are not debarred according to the Excluded Party Listing System of the Federal Government o...
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