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Mr. Dickerson said the equipment for the Sheriff's Office
would be located at two different sites (two primary sites -- one
in Statesville and one in Mooresville) for the purpose of an
operation called Simulcast. This will allow them to broadbase the
dispatches to all areas of the county. Currently, they are having
to toggle back and forth between organizations and different
switches. "In effect," Dickerson said, "it expands our coverage
area."
MOTION by Commissioner Stewart to approve the low bid of
Two -Way Radio of Carolina, Inc. in the amount of $40,603.00 and
list this as Budget Amendment 13 for the documentation.
VOTING: Ayes - 5; Nays - 0.
(Note: This budget amendment will be necessary in order to
appropriate funds from the fund balance reserve for drug
enforcement revenue and capital outlay for the sheriff's portion.
A FEMA reimbursement will cover the Communications portion for this
request.)
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purchasing agent advised that the County would soon be in the
bidding process for vehicles. A clarification is sought pertaining
to vehicle bids since recently the purchasing agent had received
several requests from dealers out of Iredell County to participate
in the bidding process. During a commissioners' meeting on January
8, 1991, there was a decision made to keep bids for vehicles within
Iredell County. The Institute of Government has given some
interpretation of the General Statutes pertaining to the
confinement within the County boundary for bidding. Basic comments
from the Institute are:
1. It is not in the spirit of the statutes to exclude vendors
from bidding unless there is a valid reason, such as poor
performance. Counties cannot refuse to accept a bid except on
grounds that are related to standard of award.
2. Statutes state the award must be to "the lowest
responsible bidder," which does not authorize award based solely on
location.
3. The advertisement requirement is based on desire to invite
competition, as indicated by interpretation of a court decision of
Mullen Vs. Town of Louisburg. Since it is required that the
invitation be published in the newspaper, it is expected that there
will be no discrimination in those (vendors) requesting to bid.
4. It might be stated in the specifications that bidders be
limited to within a certain mileage radius for warranty or general
repair purposes, but that also may be challenged.
5. Specifications are public documents, so Counties cannot
refuse to send them out.
6. A percentage consideration to local vendors over others is
expressly prohibited, i.e., award cannot be made to a local vendor
who is within some stated percentage higher than a non -local
vendor, based on location or to keep the money in the County,"
since that is not the "lowest responsible bidder." (see #2)
7. Boards have authority to waive the 58 bid deposit or bid
bond on the purchase of apparatus or equipment for contracts under
$100,000.
(These seven items were taken from Mrs. Caldwell's September
30, 1993 memo to commissioners.)
Mrs. Caldwell stated she surveyed five counties about the size
of Iredell to find out their bidding policies. She determined that
there were no two counties employing the same bidding method.