REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
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Receive a Report of an Emergency Procurement to Provide a Bulk Chemical, a Mineral Oxidant, to Meet Compliance Requirements at the Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP) and Find that the Project is of Urgent Necessity for the Preservation of Life, Health, or Property (F24-026), and Find that the Action is Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Pursuant to Sections 15301 and 15308 of the CEQA Guidelines.
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
Staff is presenting this report to Council to provide information on the completed emergency procurement resulting in a change order to add $600,000 to a current purchase agreement with Jenfitch Inc., to procure additional mineral oxidant needed to meet compliance requirements at the Water Pollution Control Plant ("WPCP" or "the Plant"). A significant change in effluent conditions in the Plant's secondary treatment process, impacted the Plant's ability to meet Turbidity (NTU) requirements. If discharged, this potentially subjects the City to penalties, administrative orders, third-party litigation, cease and desist orders, and other consequences.
EXISTING POLICY
Pursuant to Chapter 2.08 of the Sunnyvale Municipal Code, the City Manager, the Purchasing Officer, or a department head may make or authorize others to make emergency procurements, regardless of cost, if there is an urgent necessity to do so for the preservation of life, health, or property. Such emergency procurements shall be made with such competition as is practical under the circumstances and shall be limited to those goods and services necessary to satisfy the emergency need. In the event that such emergency action is necessary, and the procurement cost is greater than two hundred fifty thousand dollars in any one transaction, the City Manager shall make a full and complete report to the City Council at its next regularly scheduled meeting.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
Use of mineral oxidants to treat wastewater at the Plant is e...
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