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4 AN ORDINANCE WAIVING COMPETITIVE BIDS AND
5 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A
6 SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT WITH HEWLETT- PACKARD IN
7 THE AMOUNT OF $83,246 FOR THE PURCHASE OF A GAS
8 CIH2OMATOGRAPH/MASS SPECTROMETER (GC/MS) FOR
9 THE LITTLE ROCK POLICE DEPARTMENT IN
10 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ARKANSAS STATE CRIME
11 LABORATORY.
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13 WHEREAS, the U. S. Department of Justice has awarded Little Rock and five other cities
14 with grants up to $750,000 to develop and implement strategies that effectively halt the spread of
15 methamphetamine; and
16 WHEREAS, Little Rock's strategy includes establishing a public awareness campaign, the
17 development of partnerships and the creation of a shared data base with the Pulaski County Sheriff's
18 Office and the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory, additional training for officers, overtime for
19 enforcement, treatment of methamphetamine users, and the purchase of surveillance and other
20 specialized equipment for the Police Department, Pulaski County Sheriff's Office and the State Crime
21 Laboratory; and
22 WHEREAS, the partnership with the State Crime Laboratory includes the purchase of a Gas
23 Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS) to enhance drug analysis operations; and
24 WHEREAS, the State Crime Laboratory requests this equipment be purchased as a sole
25 source item from Hewlett Packard for the following reasons: (1) the GC/MS system comes with a
26 chemstation that can control four other instruments this capability will allow the laboratory to
27 connect of one of their three GC/MS's that is not Y2K compatible to be connected to it bring it into
28 compliance. (2) Hewlett Packard is the manufacturer of the laboratory's current GC/MS's in the Drug
29 Section. The laboratory personnel have already been trained to repair trouble shoot them, other brands
30 would mandate additional training. (3) The Hewlett Packard brand would allow auto - samplers to be
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interchangeable between existing ones if one should break. (4) The purchase of a Hewlett - Packard
system will allow the laboratory to network with existing GUMS instruments. 3 2J Y
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. The City Manager is authorized to waive competitive bidding enter into a sole
source contract with Hewlett Packard of Wilmington, Delaware, for the purchase of a Gas
Chromatograph/Mass. Spectrometer.
SECTION 2. The City Manager is authorized to waive competitive bidding declare
Hewlett Packard as a sole source provider of repairing the Gas Chromatograph/Mass
Spectrometer.
SECTION 3. Funding for this project is available in the Police Department's COPS
Methamphetamine Initiative Special Project account (210- 350 -A255 -057).
Adopted: May 4, 1999
Attest:
Robbie Hancock, City Clerk
Approved as to Legal Form:
Thomas M. Carpenter, Ci Attorney
Ap roved:
Ji alley, Mayor