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3 <br /> 111'1111 1111111, 11 <br /> 111111111111 111, 'I 1:01 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGEND - <br /> Meeting Date: January 21, 2Q10 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No; L41 <br /> SUBJECT; Bid Award;Ambulances for Emerm en Services <br /> DEPARTMENT; Asset Management and PUBLIC,HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> Purchasing Services (AMPS) <br /> & Emergency San/ices <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Pam Jones, AMPS, 919-245-2652 <br /> Emergency Services Reserve C;pital David Cannell, AMPS, 919-245-2651 <br /> Project Ordinance Frank Mlontes de Oca, Emergency <br /> Services, 919-245 -6100 <br /> Clint Osborn, Emergency Services, 919- <br /> 245-6100 <br /> Clarence Grier, Financial Senrices, 919- <br /> 245-2453 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider awarding a bid for the purchase of three ambulances to Excellence <br /> Incorporated of Madison, Alabama and to purchase additional safety and patient care <br /> equipment. <br /> ACKGROUND: Between 2004 and 2006, Emergency Services upgraded the anti L. <br /> ambulance fleet with eight F-450 Ford Ambulances, Ore a laulance has been permanently <br /> removed from the fleet due to a collision. Five of the remaining seven have reached the end of <br /> their expected useful life as frontline response units. <br /> While certain changes, such as the move to a larger chassis arid the addition of the dual power <br /> climate control systems have been very beneficial, none of these vehicles were able to utilize <br /> the bic-diesel fuel mixture as expected in 2004 due to critical fuel system issues that caused <br /> ongoing problems. In addition, the SOL Ford engines have been plagued with mechanical' <br /> issues increasing repair cost and time out of service, The Ford 6.01_ engine problems ar- <br /> affecting EMS systems nationwide with Orange County currently participating in a class action <br /> lawsuit against the manufacturer. <br /> In 2008 after a series of occasions whereby the ambulance fleet could not sustain the workload, <br /> Emergency Services staff approached Public Works FI:st Management to irevelop a long term <br /> solution, Following a series of meetings Emergency Services and Public Works agreed that a <br /> medium duty chassis and drive train (engine and transmission) is critical to compensate for <br /> increasing call volume„ mileage, -nd corresponding on-scene idling during calls, <br /> At the same time, the County Manager directed Emergency Services to initiate a regular <br /> replacement cycle starting With three new ambulances in the first year (FY 20109-2010) followed <br />