NEWS
NEEDED AND SHARED
Bill
Gellman-City of Brea-Bill
will be replacing the copy machines throughout the
city. Discussion was varied as to the "best" make
of machine and the way to structure the cost of the
lease. Seems that the more preferred way is to do
a cost per copy type of lease, as it is more equitable
in spreading the costs among the various departments.
Heavy
usage departments will pay more; lighter usage departments
will pay less. Next Bill approached the issue of bid
bonds. It was decided that there seemed to be some
"definition overlap" between the terms bid bond and
performance bond. It was pointed out that it is important
to know how much of a project is at risk at any one
time to prevent bonding the entire project when possibly
only 25% of the project is at risk at any one time.
Lastly,
Bill's fuel contract has expired and needs to get
a new contract, vendor to be determined. Bill would
like to piggyback on an existing contract if anyone
has good one to share. Tracy
Hamilton mentioned that Irvine piggybacks on
to the San Bernardino contract.
Kathleen
Hodges-City of Torrance,
has a need to put alarms in their 40 some schools,
wants a system that will be monitored, as opposed
to just an alarm that just goes off. Does anyone have
a good vendor they can recommend?
John
Anderson-City of Manhattan Beach.
In the next couple of months he will be bidding a
Police/Fire Department facility. Mentioned that his
city uses 3-wheeled vehicles for their parking enforcement.
He was able to purchase the vehicles out of state
and saved about $1000.00 per vehicle. He presently
has a p-card program in place and is satisfied with
the vendor. Give John a call for details.
Marc
Monforte-LAUSD. The school
district is going to do their own parking enforcement,
besides purchasing approximately 24 vehicles, the
district also needs to bid both towing and impound
services. If anyone can recommend a vendor, please
contact Marc.
Marc
recently held an on line auction for electricity and
the whole process was quite interesting. The auction
was "managed" by a firm in San Francisco. Contact
Marc for details if this is something you may be considering.
Marc and the MTA will be joint bidding on fuel next
year.
Kristy
Shadle-City of Burbank.
They will be bidding their fuel needs, want to see
if they can do better than the piggyback opportunities
that are available.
Felice
Fromm-City of Torrance.
The city has mixed feeling on bidding their vehicles
as opposed to just negotiating directly with the vendor.
She will be going to bid for both health insurance
and banking services.
Nancy
Pickard-City of Fullerton.
She has a bid for a diesel powered sewer vehicle.
She also just recently sold a fire truck on line.
Beverly
Carr-City of Inglewood.
Her city is looking at redoing their policies and
procedures for the purchasing department. If anyone
can share his or her policies and procedures, please
contact Beverly. Inglewood is also looking at their
p-card program.
Cynthia
Duprey-City of South Gate-Rodents-big
ones, in the police department. Anyone recommend a
good exterminator please contact Cynthia.
Tracy
Hamilton-City of Irvine.
Looking for a temporary buyer with IFAS experience
for approximately 5 months. Tracy also mentioned that
Irvine has recently gone to bid for banking services.
Jana
Vandenburg-City of Long Beach.
Long Beach is going to re-examine their p-card program.
The Long Beach purchasing department was the subject
of an internal audit. The findings were that when
a department did not use the services of the purchasing
department, they paid approximately 25% more!!
Mike
Hunter-City of Lakewood.
The elections are over and the city has 2 new council
members (40% of the council.) Things should get back
to business as usual very shortly.
OUR
NEXT MEETING WILL BE MAY 4TH IN LAKEWOOD.
