Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the following Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements listed below for the purchase of Universal Industrial Parts & Equipment for the Department of Public Utilities. The parts and materials from these contracts are used to maintain and repair equipment throughout the Water Distribution Maintenance Section, the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Jackson Pike Wastewater Plant.
UNIVERSAL TERM CONTRACT PURCHASE AGREEMENTS:
Miscellaneous Industrial Hardware
Mainline Mechanical Joint Fittings
Mainline Couplings, Clamps and Various Parts
Sewer and Water Pipe
Sewer Pipe Fittings
Various Batteries
Small Electric Motors
Small Tools
Line Locating Equipment
Power Transmission Parts
Dezurik Valves
EIM Actuator Parts
Flexible Repair Couplings
Mainline Pipe, Valves & Boxes
Maxon Valves
The companies are 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: $535,000.00 is budgeted and needed for this purchase. This ordinance is contingent on the passage of the 2020 Operating Budget, Ordinance 2926-2019.
$543,860.22 was spent in 2019
$373,117.07 was spent in 2018
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of Universal Industrial Parts & Equipment for the Division of Water and the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and to authorize the expenditure of $385,000.00 from the Sewerage Operating Fund and $150,000.00 from the Water Operating Fund ($535,000.00).
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has established Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of Universal Industrial Parts & Equipment; and
WHEREAS, the parts and materials from these contracts are used to maintain and repair equipment throughout the Water Distribution Maintenance Section, the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities to authorize the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of Universal Industrial Parts & Equipment; thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; 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 associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of Universal Industrial Parts & Equipment.
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 $535,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and is hereby authorized $385,000.00 in Fund 6100 (Sewerage Operating-Sanitary) and the expenditure of $150,000.00 in Fund 6000 (Water Operating); in object class 02 Materials and 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.