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 Agreement listed below for the Division of Water. This General Budget Reservation will be used to maintain the computer based system that monitors and controls the water production in the treatment plants and the flow of water within the distribution system throughout the City.
UNIVERSAL TERM CONTRACT PURCHASE AGREEMENT:
Process Control Computer Maintenance
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: $327,853.00 is budgeted and needed for this purchase. This ordinance is contingent on the passage of the 2020 operating budget, Ordinance 2926-2019.
$649,107.45 was spent in 2019.
$265,184.66 was spent in 2018.
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreement for Process Control Computer Maintenance for the Division of Water; and to authorize the expenditure of $327,853.00 from the Water Operating Fund. ($327,853.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has established a Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreement for Process Control Computer Maintenance; and
WHEREAS, the Process Control Computer Maintenance Purchase Agreement is used to purchase supplies and services that are used for monitoring the quality of the treatment process required by federal and state standards; 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 Process Control Computer Maintenance; 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 Agreement for Process Control Computer Maintenance.
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 $327,853.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, and is hereby authorized in Fund 6000 (Water Operating); in object class 02 Materials and Supplies and object class 03 Services 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.