Explanation
BACKGROUND:
The Director of Finance and Management is hereby authorized to associate all General Budget reservations resulting from this ordinance with the Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreement (PA004145) with Wesco Distribution, Inc. for the purchase of Pole Line Hardware for the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Power.
The Pole Line Hardware will be used for new installations and maintenance for day-to-day operations. The contract includes hardware such as insulators, grounding hardware, spacers, fuses, clamps, brackets and bolts to attach equipment to the poles for power service.
SUPPLIER: Wesco Distribution, Inc. Vendor #001977 CC#25-1723345 Expires 07/25/20 (MAJ)
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: $150,000.00 is budgeted and needed for this purchase.
$137,471.05 was spent in 2018.
$99,682.26 was spent in 2017.
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To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreement (PA004145) for the purchase of Pole Line Hardware with Wesco Distribution, Inc.; and to authorize the expenditure of $150,000.00 from the Power Operating Fund. ($150,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has established a Universal Term Contract for the purchase of Pole Line Hardware with Wesco Distribution, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, Pole Line Hardware will be used for new installations and maintenance for day-to-day operations for the Division of Power, and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Power, to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreement (PA004145) for the purchase of Pole Line Hardware with Wesco Distribution, Inc. for the preservation of public health, peace, property, safety; 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 associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreement (PA004145) for the purchase of Pole Line Hardware with Wesco Distribution, Inc.
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 $150,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and is hereby authorized in Fund 6300 (Electricity Operating); in object class 02 Materials & Supplies 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.