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A resolution approving a purchase agreement with Lyngsoe Systems to purchase library media management equipment in an amount not to exceed $307,846.00.
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WHEREAS, on November 9, 2020, the City Council awarded a construction contract to Swinerton Builders of San Francisco, California for the Civic Campus: Phase II Library | Parks & Recreation Center (Project No. pf2103); and
WHEREAS, on November 9, 2020, the overall budget of $103,000,000 was finalized to include Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment (FF&E) including library equipment for the new Library | Parks & Recreation facility; and,
WHEREAS, the new library equipment must be compatible with the existing equipment used within the Peninsula Library System (PLS); and
WHEREAS, as a participant in the Peninsula Library Automated Network (PLAN) Joint Powers Authority (JPA), the City is further contractually obligated to purchase and use material handling equipment and software that is consistent with standards established by PLS and compatible with the countywide system/central site; and
WHEREAS, South San Francisco Municipal Code Section 4.04.080 permits the City to dispense with open market procedures when a commodity can be obtained from only one vendor. California law also contains statutes of similar intents which allow cities to make sole source purchases of products to match other products in use on a particular public improvement either completed or in the course of completion; and
WHEREAS, the City finds the contract is for unique equipment that meets these requirements and determines that this purchase can only be made from this particular source as it is necessary to procure equipment required to integrate into the Peninsula Library System existing equipment as required by the City's contractual membership in the JPA; and
WHEREAS, Lyngsoe Systems has provided a quote, proposal describing the equipment to be purchased, and a purchase agreement, all of which are included as Exhibit A to...
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