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File #: 24-2774   
Type: Ordinance-S Status: Adopted
Meeting Body: City Council Formal Meeting
On agenda: 2/5/2025 Final action: 2/5/2025
Title: General Police Towing Services - RFP 13-006 (Ordinance S-51631) - Citywide
District: Citywide

Title

General Police Towing Services - RFP 13-006 (Ordinance S-51631) - Citywide

 

Description

Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to allow additional expenditures under the following four contracts for the purchase of general police towing services for the Police Department: Contact 135124 with Western Towing of Phoenix, Inc.; Contract 135125 with DVT Enterprises, LLC dba DV Towing; and Contracts 135126 and 135191 with ACT Towing, dba All City Towing. Further request to authorize the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item. The additional expenditures will not exceed $300,000.

 

Report

Summary

The Police Department requires general towing services to remove vehicles for citizens involved in vehicle crashes, towing abandoned vehicles, vehicles left in roadways, illegally parked vehicles and other law enforcement impounds. Towing services are essential to the Police Department and are mandated by Arizona Revised Statutes, Phoenix City Codes and Police Department policies. These contracts also provide auctioneering services of lawfully impounded vehicles that have been determined to be abandoned vehicles as defined by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division. The additional funds will allow for uninterrupted service through the end of the contract term.

 

Contract Term

The contract term remains unchanged, ending on December 31, 2026.

 

Financial Impact

Upon approval of $300,000 in additional funds, the revised aggregate value of the contract will not exceed $1,629,832. Funds are available in the Police Department's budget.

 

Concurrence/Previous Council Action

The City Council previously reviewed this request:

  • General Police Towing Services - Contracts 135124, 135125, 135126 and 135191 (Ordinance S-39460) on December 19, 2012;
  • General Police Towing Services - Contracts 135124, 135125, 135126 and 135191 (Ordinance S-44209) on January 24, 2018;
  • General Police Towing Services - Contracts 135124, 135125, 135126 and 135191 (Ordinance S-44333) on March 21, 2018;
  • General Police Towing Services - Contracts 135124, 135125, 135126 and 135191 (Ordinance S-45345) on February 6, 2019;
  • General Police Towing Services - Contracts 135124, 135125, 135126 and 135191 (Ordinance S-45759) on June 5, 2019;
  • General Police Towing Services - Contracts 135124, 135125, 135126 and 135191 (Ordinance S-47246) on January 20, 2021; and
  • General Police Towing Services - Contracts 135124, 135125, 135126 and 135191 (Ordinance S-50583) on February 21, 2024.

 

Department

Responsible Department

This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Lori Bays and the Police Department.