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Consider and take action on a resolution authorizing the continued purchase of Carrier air conditioning units in support of the Facilities Modernization and Energy Efficiency CIP through the Buyboard cooperative vendor, Carrier South Central, in an amount not to exceed $249,673.52 (Deputy City Manager)
Background:
Approval of this resolution will authorize the continued purchase of Carrier air conditioning units from the Buyboard cooperative vendor, Carrier South Central, which has competitively priced the units statewide. As of August 22, 2016, the City’s Capital Improvement Project (CIP) “FM1102 - Facilities Modernization and Energy Efficiency” has encumbered $36,673.62 with Carrier South Central in FY2016. Upon council adoption of this resolution, staff anticipates encumbering an additional $56,000 in FY2016 and an additional $157,000 in FY2017 with this vendor.
These Carrier units are to provide for the systematic replacement of existing air conditioning units which are failing and non-compliant with the Montreal Protocol which was:
1. ratified in 1989,
2. identified Refrigerant 22 as an ozone depleting agent, and
3. set a timetable for phasing out the refrigerant
Production of air conditioning equipment using Refrigerant 22 has now ceased and production of the refrigerant has been drastically reduced resulting in a much higher cost for R-22 refrigerant. In recognition of the fact that the majority of the City’s air conditioning units use R-22 refrigerant, the City Council approved CIP FM1102 in FY2016.
CIP FM1102 calls for the systematic replacement of the City’s non-compliant air conditioning units. Since the beginning of this fiscal year the City’s Facilities Department has been purchasing and replacing non-compliant and failing air conditioning units with Carrier units purchased through the State’s Buyboard cooperative vendor, Carrier South Central out of Houston, which guarantees low competitively bid pricing.
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