Title
Additional Expenditures for Contracts to Purchase Fire Service Apparatus (Ordinance S-45914)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to authorize additional expenditures for Houston-Galveston Area Council Contracts - FS-12-17, Contract 149184 with H&E Equipment Services, Inc.; City Contract 149183 with Hughes Fire Equipment, Inc.; City Contract 149181 with Rosenbauer Minnesota, LLC; City Contract 149179 with Rosenbauer South Dakota, LLC; City Contract 149182 with Oshkosh Airport Products, LLC; and City Contract 149180 with Super Vacuum Manufacturing Co., Inc., in an amount not to exceed $11,300,000 to purchase fire apparatus for the Public Works Department, on behalf of the Fire Department. Further request authorization for the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item. Upon approval of the additional expenditures of $11,300,000 the revised aggregate value will be $13,800,000.
Report
Summary
The Fire Department has aging fire service apparatus and has received approval to purchase: 1 specialized aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicle for deployment at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, and 1 ladder tender, 5 ladder trucks, 7 pumper trucks, and 1 striker for deployment at various locations citywide. The contracts will continue to allow the Fire Department to purchase fire service apparatus to meet the various needs of the department, which is critical to providing emergency response services to City of Phoenix residents and surrounding municipalities who are automatic aid partners in the computer-aided dispatching system.
Financial Impact
Upon approval of the additional expenditures of $11,300,000 the revised aggregate value will be $13,800,000. Funds are available in the Fire and Aviation departments' budgets.
Concurrence/Previous Council Action
The contracts were originally approved by Formal Council Action on Dec. 5, 2018.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Managers Milton Dohoney, Jr. and Deanna Jonovich, Deputy City Manager Karen Peters, and the Fire, Aviation, and Public Works departments.