Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a contract with All Around Access LLC for the purchase of a Telescopic Boom Lift with Articulating Jib for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. The Telescopic Boom Lift with Articulating Jib will be used at the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant to safely perform maintenance work in areas with limited access points and high places. This unit will also allow us to extend down below elevation to work in tanks where ladders are difficult to use.
The Purchasing Office advertised and solicited competitive bids in accordance with the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to competitive bidding (Solicitation RFQ002455). Seventy-three (73) vendors were solicited and two (2) bids were received and opened on August 25, 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, All Around Access LLC, for Item 1.
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: All Around Access LLC, Contract Compliance Number: 27-3987945 Expires 9/1/18
FISCAL IMPACT: $120,322.00 is budgeted for this purchase.
$0.00 was expended in 2015.
$0.00 was expended in 2014.
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To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a contract with All Around Access LLC for the purchase of a Telescopic Boom Lift with Articulating Jib for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage and to authorize the expenditure of $120,322.00 from the Sewer System Operating Fund. ($120,322.00)
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WHEREAS, the Division of Sewerage and Drainage has a need for a Telescopic Boom Lift with Articulating Jib to be used at the Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant to safely perform maintenance work in areas with limited access points and high places. This unit will also allow us to extend down below elevation to work in tanks where ladders are difficult to use; and
WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office opened formal bids on August 25, 2016 for the purchase of a Telescopic Boom Lift with Articulating Jib 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, All Around Access LLC for Item 1; and
WHEREAS, a contract will be issued by the Purchasing Office in accordance with the terms, conditions and specifications of Solicitation Number: RFQ002455 on file in the Purchasing Office;
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to enter into contract with All Around Access, LLC for a Telescopic Boom Lift with Articulating Jib for the Division of Sewerage and Draininge; 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 enter into a contract with All Around Access LLC, 2095 47th Ave. NE, Naples, FL 34120, for the purchase of a Telescopic Boom Lift with Articulating Jib 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 $120,322.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized in Fund 6100 (Sewerage System Operating), in object class 06 Capital Outlay per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.