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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 17, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. g.. C <br />SUBJECT • Bid Award: Utility Body Mounted On Cutaway Van For Fire Marshal <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Emergency Management <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, 245-2652 <br />Bid Tabulation Nick Waters or Mike Tapp 968-2050 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider awarding a bid for a utility body mounted on a cutaway van. <br />BACKGROUND: Funds have been allocated in the 1999-2009 CIP for the purchase of a utility <br />body mounted on a cutaway van to be used for fire investigations. The vehicle currently used <br />for this purpose is a 1984 Ford van-style ambulance that was taken off-line in 1992. The <br />vehicle now has in excess of 200,000 miles and is ahigh-maintenance vehicle. It is no longer <br />cost effective to maintain it for departmental use. <br />The proposed utility body mounted on a cutaway van is better suited to the work that is carried <br />out at the fire scene. A cutaway van is one whose body has been cut away to the rear of the <br />front seat area in order to accommodate the utility body. This allows the driver to walk from the <br />front to the rear of the van without leaving the vehicle. The design of the proposed vehicle will <br />allow the equipment to be better organized and therefore more easily accessible on the fire <br />scene. Further, it will provide much-needed workspace for the Fire Marshal's office while on the <br />scene conducting the investigation. As the Board may know, the Fire Marshal's office assists <br />volunteer fire departments in the determination of fire causes, as well as conducts arson <br />investigations. Last year approximately 70 such investigations were required. <br />Vehicles of this type are not offered through State contract, which necessitated that bids be <br />solicited. The bid was advertised and sent to thirteen vendors. Two bidders responded to the <br />March 31 bid call. A tabulation is attached. Don Lacefield Chevrolet of Hillsborough, North <br />Carolina submitted the lowest responsible bid that was responsive in the amount of $27,123.56. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: Total cost of this action, if approved by the Board, would be $27,123.56. <br />Sufficient funds are allocated in the 1999-2009 CIP. <br />