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Resolution to Authorize a Sole Source Purchase Order to Carrier & Gable, Inc for the Purchase of Traffic Signal Materials ($480,000.00)
Memorandum
Please find attached for your consideration a resolution that authorizes a sole source purchase order to Carrier & Gable, Inc., of Farmington Hills, Michigan, for traffic signal materials and supplies. We are requesting $480,000.00 for several projects and to purchase normal maintenance supplies.
This resolution supports the following projects:
1. Varsity and Ellsworth pedestrian signal upgrade ($25,000.00)
2. King George and Eisenhower pedestrian signal upgrades ($35,000.00)
3. maintenance operations including wear-out and accident damage, and support of
other City projects ($300,000.00)
4. Addition of flashing yellow arrows for left turn movement at the following locations ($55,000.00)
· Fuller and Glenn
· Barton and Plymouth
· Plymouth and Broadway
· Eisenhower and Stone School
· Cedar Bend and Fuller
· Fuller and Glazier Way
· Fuller and Fuller Ct.
· Fuller and Huron High
5. Traffic signal rebuild Division and Catherine ($65,000.00)
Approximately, $275,000.00 of the above-mentioned projects will be funded from the Field Operations Major Street fund operating budget. Approximately $205,000.00 will be utilized for Project support and will be expended against the project. In cases of accident damages, the City seeks restitution by billing responsible parties for damages.
Carrier & Gable, Inc. is the sole area distributor in Michigan and Indiana for the Eagle Signal Company. All of our signalized intersections utilize equipment manufactured by Eagle. The advantages of sole source supply include reduced inventory requirements, as well as the need to train technicians in the repair of only one type of product.
Carrier and Gable, Inc. received Human Rights approval on June 3, 2014.
Staff
Prepared by: Chuck Fojtik, Field Operations Supervisor
Reviewed by: Molly Robinson, Interim Field Operations Unit Manager
Craig Hupy, Public Services Area Administrator
Approved by: Steven D. Powers, City Administrator
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Whereas, Carrier and Gable, Inc. of Farmington Hills, Michigan, is the supplier of Eagle traffic components used in maintaining City of Ann Arbor traffic signals;
Whereas, Carrier and Gable, Inc., of Farmington Hills, Michigan has received Human Rights approval on June 3, 2014; and
Whereas, Sufficient funds have been budgeted in the Public Services Area FY 2015 Major Street operating budget and the approved capital budgets;
RESOLVED, City Council approve a sole source purchase order to Carrier and Gable, Inc. in the amount of $480,000.00 for materials and supplies; and
RESOLVED, That the City Administrator be authorized to take the necessary administrative actions to implement this resolution.