Title/Name/Summary
Police Department Firing Range Training Room Furniture - Purchase
History
The new Police Department Firing Range and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Facility is nearing completion and will be ready for use in early June. The training room, which will double as the EOC in an emergency, has been designed to host forty (40) individuals for training. This will require purchasing tables and chairs. The tables will have the capability to be reconfigured to suit the needs of an EOC.
Two (2) options were available through a cooperative purchasing program. Midwest Office Interiors (Midwest), who participates in Omnia Joint Purchasing Program contract R191804, is the usual vendor for Village office furniture, and provided multiple options and quotes. Kentwood Office Furniture (Kentwood) is a new vendor, who is a participant in Vizient Purchasing Agreement-Global (Contract #CE3374,) also provided multiple options and quotes.
Kentwood provided a more reasonable quote, and Staff visited a showroom to verify the quality. Flip-top tables with a nesting base for easy stacking and reconfiguration was chosen, along with easy nesting chairs, plus delivery and installation. Kentwood was also able to provide pricing below their competition without added tariff pricing.
Financial Impact
Funds for the purchase of furniture for the Police Department Firing Range and EOC Facility training room is available in the FY2025 Capital Improvement account 3008010-490990.
Recommended Action/Motion
I move to approve the waiver of the competitive bid process in favor of participation in a joint purchasing cooperative and authorize the approval and execution of a vendor contract for the purchase of twenty (20) flip-top Global Furniture Group tables with power and forty (40) DKA nesting chairs from Kentwood Office Furniture, via the Vizient Purchasing Agreement-Global Contract #CE3374 for an amount not to exceed $28,962.20;
AND
Authorize the Village Manager to ex...
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