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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 19, 2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 8 - b <br />SUBJECT: Integrated Supply Services Agreement: Walker Automotive Supply, Inc. <br />DEPARTMENT: Asset Management Services, PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Financial Services, County <br />Attorney <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Agreement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, Asset Management, (919) <br />245-2652 <br />Jeff Thompson, Asset Management, <br />(919) 245-2658 <br />Clarence Grier, Financial Services, <br />(919) 245-2453 <br />David Cannell, Financial Services, <br />(919) 245-2651 <br />John Roberts, County Attorney, (919) <br />245-2318 <br />PURPOSE: To approve an integrated supply services agreement with Walker Automotive <br />Supply, Inc. for implementation of an on-site inventory program for fleet and facilities. <br />BACKGROUND: National Joint Powers Alliance ("NJPA") is a national cooperative which <br />creates contracts for supplies that have been competitively priced by multiple sources. North <br />Carolina General Statute 143-129(e)(3) allows the County to purchase from these types of <br />agreements. <br />Historically, Orange County's volume of purchases for fleet and facilities inventory would not <br />allow it to qualify for an on-site managed inventory program. However, information technology <br />advances have allowed the logistics and supply industries to move away from an inventory <br />heavy supply model to a less costly "on demand" model that can support maintenance <br />operations like Orange County's. This arrangement would allow the implementation of a just-in- <br />time inventory system, managed by Walker Automotive, Inc, to be developed on the County's <br />site. <br />Walker Automotive Supply, Inc. ("NAPA"), acting as the local Agent for NAPA and its parent <br />company, Genuine Parts Company (GPC), will provide on-site logistics and supply support for <br />Orange County's fleet and facilities maintenance operations located at 600 Highway 86 North in <br />Hillsborough. Walker Automotive, Inc. will: 1) provide the inventory supply specialist who will <br />control these operations; 2) own and service the inventory housed there; and 3) distribute the <br />inventory from the County's location. <br />