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Oshkosh,Wisconsin
5 903-1130 City of Oshkosh
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TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the Common Council
FROM: Mark A. Rohloff, City Manager
DATE: January 25, 2013
RE: State of Wisconsin Cooperative Purchase of Portable Radios-Amendment
BACKGROUND
As you may recall the City Manager's Report of the December 11, 2012 Council agenda included
a memo regarding the purchase of 98 narrowband-complaint radios through a cooperative
purchase with the State of Wisconsin/Western States Contracting Alliance Contract with
Motorola (Contract #02702). The Common Council allocated $100,000 in the 2012 CIP Major
Equipment to complete this radio upgrade for all remaining radios in Public Works, Parks and
Transit. The fiscal impact of the radios was $46,242.50.
ANALYSIS
The original order included 75 Motorola PM400 VHF mobile (vehicle mounted) radios and 23
Motorola EX500 VHF portable (handheld) radios. Unfortunately, after the order was placed we
discovered that 11 of PM400 radios should have been EX500 radios.
FISCAL IMPACT
Utilizing state contract pricing the net fiscal impact of trading in 11 PM400 radios for 11 EX500
radios (and programming) would be $3,283.14. Funding for these radios would be charged to
CIP account: 323-0090-7212-06219.
RECOMMENDATION
Section 12-15 of the Municipal Code provides that subject to approval of the City Manager,
cooperative purchases pursuant to a contract with any other local, state or federal governmental
unit or agency may be made without following a competitive bidding or quotation process. hi
accordance with Section 12-15 of the Municipal Code and because this entire cooperative radio
order purchase was in excess of$25,000, I am hereby submitting a report of this purchase to the
Common Council. If you have any questions on this purchase please contact me or Fire Chief
Tim Franz.
Respectfully Submitted,
Mark A. Rohloff, City Manager
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