Finance Committee - 6/6/2018 Page 5
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Klee
When | am looking at this | see that there was one bid that was a little lower, why did we not go with that?
William Mansfield, Radio Systems Manager
So we did go with the bid, there were several bids, the lowest bid was Home Depot. They left a few things out
of the initial contract that went back to them; they came back with another price. Then | did an apples to
apples comparison of what they were giving us for air conditioning units. The air conditioning units they were
proposing were residential units and all the other ones were commercial units. Just so you know, these air
conditioners actually do run around the clock, 365 days a year. They are not residential where it only runs in
the summertime. So the units there are used to cool all of the servers for the radio system.
Alderman Klee
Okay thank you.
Alderman Laws
You will have to forgive me, there was 440 pages to sort through for the Finance Agenda today but | couldn’t
find like warranty information on this. Did you do a comparison between the warranties from the Home Depot
and from the other contract?
Mr. Mansfield
Yes | have to dig in my pile as well. | believe that the Triple A proposal had the better warranty, they offered |
believe it was 5 years compared to the Home Depot which was a 1 year. Just looking to confirm that but | am
pretty sure that is what it was. | don’t see it so | apologize for that.
Alderman Laws
Would you mind just letting us Know at some point in the future, | would appreciate it.
Mr. Mansfield
Absolutely.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Purchase of Nashua/Manchester Redundant Communications Center (Value: $505,899)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE
FROM MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $505,899. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN
DEPARTMENT 157, CITYWIDE COMMUNICATIONS; NASHUA/MANCHESTER COMMUNICATIONS
RESILIENCY GRANT
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
And these are grand funds correct?
