Item 6-K
Council Meeting: May 25, 1999 Santa Monica, California
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Staff
SUBJECT: Recommendation to Award Purchase Order to Knoll, Inc. to Furnish, Deliver and Install Miscellaneous Office Work Space Furnishings
Introduction
This report recommends award of bid to furnish, deliver and install modular work stations, partitions, storage cabinets, conference and computer training room furniture for Cable TV, Information Systems and Civil Engineering Division, Environmental and Public Works Management Department, in the total amount of $95,631.83, including applicable sales tax.
Background
The work space furnishings will be used for staff relocation to leased office space at 525 Broadway. Information Systems and Civil Engineering are being relocated due to lack of adequate work space at City Hall. Cable TV staff is relocating from the trailer they currently occupy in preparation for the construction of the new Public Safety building.
Staff recommends that the work space furnishings be purchased from Knoll, Inc. under the cooperative purchasing provisions of the Federal GSA contract number GS-29F-0140G. The Federal procurement process meets the City
=s criteria for joint purchasing under the provisions of Section 2.24.080 of the City Municipal Code.Budget/Financial Impact
Fiscal Year 1998-99 appropriation authority for this purchase are in the City Manager Non-Departmental account number 01-700-274-00000-2262-00000 in the total amount of $80,260.36; Information Systems account number 01-110-223-00000-8809-00000 in the total amount of $3,797.05; and Civil Engineering Division, Environmental and Public Works Management Department account number 01-500-402-00000-8820-00000 in the total amount of $11,574.42.
Recommendation
It is recommended that a purchase order be made to Knoll, Inc. in the amount of $95,631.83, including applicable sales tax.
Prepared By:
Pam Wortham, Purchasing Agent
Margarita Lee, Buyer
Ruth O=Dell, Support Services Supervisor, Civil
Engineering