Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation is to establish a sole-source contract to purchase a Horizon Technology, Inc. SPE-DEX 3100 Automated Extraction System for the analysis of oil and grease for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Surveillance Lab in accordance with the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 pertaining to Sole Source Procurement. This equipment will be utilized for the analysis of oil and grease for both Jackson Pike and Southerly Wastewater Treatment plants NPDES permit requirements. In addition, industries that discharge into our sanitary sewer system are required, per permit issued by the Division's Pretreatment Section, to undergo analysis of their oil and grease output as well. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage has researched the marketplace and determined that Horizon Technology, Inc. is the sole source manufacture of the equipment necessary to comply with the NPDES permit requirements at the Jackson Pike and Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plants.
A price quote is on file in the Purchasing Office from Horizon Technology, Inc.
Horizon Technology, Inc. MAJ CC#02-0457387 Vendor#000071 Expires 04/17/2019
Total Expenditure: $44,200.00 Division of Sewerage and Drainage
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.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding to establish this contract is budgeted within the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
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To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish a sole source contract with Horizon Technology, Inc. for the purchase of a SPE-DEX 3100 Automated Extraction System, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and to authorize the expenditure of $44,200.00 from the Sewerage System Operating Fund. ($44,200.00)
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WHEREAS, the Division of Sewerage and Drainage is in need of a Horizon Technology, Inc. SPE-DEX 3100 Automated Extraction System for the analysis of oil and grease; and
WHEREAS, Horizon Technology, Inc. is the sole source provider for this equipment; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to contract for the purchase of a Horizon Technology, Inc. SPE-DEX 3100 Automated Extraction System for the analysis of oil and grease for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage for the preservation of public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Finance and Management Director be and is hereby authorized to enter into the contract to purchase a Horizon Technology, Inc. SPE-DEX 3100 Automated Extraction System for the analysis of oil and grease for the Surveillance Lab in the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
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 $44,200.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and is hereby authorized in Fund 6100 (Sewerage Operating) in object class 06 Capital Outlay per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That this purchase is in accordance with the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 pertaining to Sole Source Procurement.
SECTION 5. That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.