File #: 23-00860    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 9/1/2023 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 9/12/2023 Final action: 9/12/2023
Title: Consider recommendations regarding a Request for Waiver of Competition to purchase structural firefighting personal protective equipment from Allstar Fire Equipment, as follows: a) Approve and authorize the Chief Procurement Officer, the County Purchasing Agent, to procure approximately 200 Lion Structural Firefighting Turnouts in an amount not to exceed $783,000.00 over the course of the next two years from Allstar Fire Equipment, not a local vendor, without conducting a formal bid process; and b) Determine that the proposed action does not constitute a "Project" within the meaning of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA Guidelines, because it consists of the creation of a government funding mechanism or other government fiscal activities, which does not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant impact on the environment.
Sponsors: FIRE DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - Allstar Equipment Sales Quote Dated August 7 2023, 3. Attachment B - Lion Authorized Approved Sole Source Distributor Letter, 4. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding a Request for Waiver of Competition to purchase structural firefighting personal protective equipment from Allstar Fire Equipment, as follows:

 

a) Approve and authorize the Chief Procurement Officer, the County Purchasing Agent, to procure approximately 200 Lion Structural Firefighting Turnouts in an amount not to exceed $783,000.00 over the course of the next two years from Allstar Fire Equipment, not a local vendor, without conducting a formal bid process; and

 

b) Determine that the proposed action does not constitute a “Project” within the meaning of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA Guidelines, because it consists of the creation of a government funding mechanism or other government fiscal activities, which does not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant impact on the environment.