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BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a contract with Hach Company for the purchase of a Flow Injection Analyzer for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. This system will be used at the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Surveillance Laboratory to analyze samples for nutrient content such as cyanide, total phosphorus, TKN, ammonia, and nitrates.
The Purchasing Office advertised and solicited competitive bids in accordance with the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to competitive bidding (Solicitation RFQ001847). Twenty-one (21) vendors were solicited and two (2) bids were received and opened on July 20, 2016. After a review of the bids, the Division of Sewerage and Drainage recommends the award be made to the lowest responsive and responsible and best bidder, Hach Company, for all Items. Skalar Inc. offered an alternate analyzer for a lower price, however, they bid a segmented flow analyzer which does not inject the sample into the flow stream the same way a flow injection analyzer does, therefore the bidder is non-responsive.
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: Hach Company, Contract Compliance Number: 42-0704420 Expires 6/17/18
FISCAL IMPACT: $68,683.64 is budgeted for this purchase.
$86,400.00 was spent in 2015.
$263,152.00 was spent in 2014.
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To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a contract with Hach Company for the purchase of a Flow Injection Analyzer for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage and to authorize the expenditure of $68,683.64 from the Sewer System Operating Fund. ($68,683.64)
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WHEREAS, the Flow Injection Analyzer will be used at the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Surveillance La...
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