City of Columbus - File #: 2602-2017

• File #: 2602-2017
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/27/2017
• In control: Economic Development Committee
• On agenda: 10/16/2017
• Final action: 10/19/2017
• Title: To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to issue a purchase order to King Business Interiors for the purchase of furniture and fixtures, including redesign fees, needed by the Department of Development for its new offices located at 111 North Front Street; to waive the competitive bidding provisions of Columbus City Code 329, to authorize an amendment to the 2017 Capital Improvement Budget; to authorize the transfer, appropriation, and expenditure of $55,000.00 as follows: General Permanent Improvement Fund ($32,500.00) and Development Services Fund ($22,500.00); and to declare an emergency. ($55,000.00)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/19/2017	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
10/18/2017	1	MAYOR	Signed
10/16/2017	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
10/16/2017	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass

Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to waive competitive bidding and issue a purchase order for the purchase of additional furniture and fixtures, including a redesign fee, needed by the Department of Development for its new offices at 111 North Front Street. This furniture and fixtures is in addition to the furniture and fixtures originally purchased as part of the construction contract to build the new building.

Partial purchases will be established through State Term Contracts pursuant to Ordinance 582-87. Authority to waive competitive bidding under Columbus City Code Chapter 329 is requested for the purchase from the State Term Schedules, including paying a redesign fee.

King Business Interiors is providing furniture and fixtures under the original construction contract, and to ensure consistency with warranty, delivery, schedules and styles, it is in the City's best interest to order the furniture and fixtures from King Business Interiors. Some of the furniture is available on a State Term Schedule with King Business Interiors. The state contract numbers are Contract STS800328-6 expiring 11/30/18 and STS800437-3 expiring 10/31/17. In addition to the furniture and fixture purchase, King Business Interiors will include a redesign fee from the architect of record of the project, Schooley Caldwell. The estimated amount of the furniture and fixtures, and redesign fee is $23,000.

Other items, which are not part of the STS but are lines carried by King Business Interiors. Because King Business Interiors will be purchased as well. The Department of Development is requesting authority to waive competitive bidding under Columbus City Code Chapter 329 to purchase the items not on the State Term Contract from King Business Interiors. The estimated amount of these furniture and fixtures is $32,000.

Funding for the purchase of items from the State Term Schedule, including redesign fee, s...