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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irving
FROM: David McCabe, Assistant Chief of Services - Aurora Fire Department
DATE: December 13, 2019
SUBJECT:
Resolution authorizing the purchase of one (1) 2020 Wheeled Coach Ford F-550 4x4 diesel Type I ambulance for the amount of $292,826.00 from Fire Service Inc.
PURPOSE:
To purchase one (1) 2020 Wheeled Coach Ford F-550 4x4 diesel Type I ambulance, from Fire Service Inc. to replace a 2015 ambulance that has reached the end of its service life as a front-line vehicle as recommended by Equipment Services.
BACKGROUND:
The Aurora Fire Department routinely replaces vehicles that are nearing or have exceeded their service life for a frontline ambulance as recommended by Equipment Services. Medic 3 is a 2015 ambulance has met the criteria for replacement. The fire department desires to make Medic 3 a reserve ambulance to be housed at Station 7 on the near southwest part of the city.
DISCUSSION:
Fire Service Inc. is the area dealer for the Wheeled Coach brand ambulance. The City of Aurora last purchased a Wheeled Coach ambulance from Fire Service Inc. in January of 2019. The Fire Service, Inc. contract with the City of Aurora contains language that allows the right to add additional units to that contract, with a guaranteed maximum mark-up (tag-on language).
There is an increased cost for the ambulance from January of 2019 (which reflected 2018 pricing) due to material cost increases, increases in prices for patient cot and cot loading system, an upgrade to the vehicle chassis, and a major change to the patient compartment area. Ford also is charging more for the 2020 chassis than the 2019 chassis the last ambulance was built on. The ambulance purchased in January of 2019 was purchased for $262,203.00. The 2020 budget for this vehicle is $300,000.00. By ordering the ambulance now, we will avoid an additional price increase that will take place in 2020. Fire Service, Inc. has agreed to hold this pricing until January 30, 2020.
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