Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 07-18-2017
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Fire Department
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Update on status of Fleet Ambulances, Costs, Means of Financing, and consideration, discussion, and possible award of the most advantageous bid to Professional Ambulance #1 for the purchase of three (3) ambulances
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Background:
The Fire Department budgeted $225,000.00 of the Public Safety Sales Tax for the purchase of a new ambulance. The Fire Department created a joint committee of both administration personnel and representatives of the firefighter's union to develop specifications and design the department's future ambulances. The specifications developed by that committee were then sent out for competitive bid and the City of Broken Arrow received five bids in return.
Of the five bids received, Professional Ambulance #1 (AEV) was the lowest and met the specifications outlined. As part of the bid, the City requested vendors to provide lease/finance options to the City for the purchase.
The Fire Department currently has 12 ambulances in its fleet, with seven having over 150,000 miles. The useful life of an ambulance chassis is roughly five years or 100,000 miles. In order to maintain a reliable fleet, the Fire Department needs to purchase three ambulances every two years.
A lease-purchase scenario would allow the Fire Department sufficient budgeted funding to purchase three ambulances this fiscal year on a five-year lease/finance term, at the end of which the City would own the Ambulances outright.
One of the three ambulances proposed for purchase includes idle-reduction technology equipment. This sustainable technology will be studied to identify the cost versus benefit of the product on future ambulances. The idle reduction technology is partially funded (80% up to $32,000.00) by Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Funds through a grant administered by the Indian ...
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