HomeMy WebLinkAboutmemos2CITY OF M1AMI, FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO :
FROM:
Glenn Marcos
Director
Purchasing Department
Rhn F. Timoney
hief of Police
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DATE
SUBJECT:
JUL 1 5 2004
Finding of Sole Source
REFERENCES:
ENCLOSURES:
FILE : LEG 7-2
Blast Guard Air Dolly System,
to include Chemicals and
Training
The Police Department is requesting a sole source finding for the acquisition of a Vanguard
Response System, Blast Guard Air Dolly System, to include chemicals and training. Based upon
the attached, the Police Department is requesting that you take the necessary steps to verify that
Vanguard Response Systems Inc., located at 921 Barton Street, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, is
the sole source for the provision of the Blast Guard Air Dolly System, to include chemicals and
training.
Your attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.
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FINDING OF SOLE SOURCE APPROVED:
Dep.1 of Purchasing
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO : Glenn Marcos, Director
Chief Procurement Officer
FROM
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Pamela Burns, CPPB
Sr. Procurement Contracts Officer
DATE :
SUBJECT:
REFERENCES:
ENCLOSURES:
August 27, 2004
FILE :
Blast Guard Air Dolly System,
including Chemicals & Training
I conducted an investigation to determine whether Vanguard Response System, a Non-Minority/Non-Local
vendor, located at 921 Barton Street, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, is the sole source provider for the purchase
of a Blast Guard Air Dolly System, to include chemicals and training, for the Department of Police.
The Department of Police has identified the Blast Guard Air Dolly System as a Weapons of Mass Destruction
(WMD) system designed for rapid containment, mitigation and management of WMD devices. It will be used to
suppress and mitigate blast energy from typical improvised explosive devices and destroy any chemical and
biological warfare agents present in these devices. The system consists of two (2) key elements, including a tent -
like enclosure and unique proprietary foam, which includes a decontaminant. It provides time to evacuate an area
with minimum risk and its shrapnel resistant ballistic cover and special ballistic seam technology maximizes the
retention of evidence for later forensic analysis.
According to Vanguard Response Systems, Inc., it is the exclusive supplier and sole licensee of the Blast Guard
Air Dolly System and universal containment system. Its blast mitigation systems are modular, versatile, safe to
use, and works with fresh, salt or gray water. Its capability as a dual purpose system can effectively be used for
blast mitigation and decontamination of dispersal devices and with the change of a nozzle can be used for surface
decontamination as well. Vanguard's Air Dolly system is portable and affordable and its high foam application
rate can suppress harmful vapors and cover equipment faster than any other system currently available. Its unique
patented foam is proprietary and aqueous based, bio-degradable, non -toxic and destroys all known military
chemical and biological agents within specified times. Staff was unable to locate any other systems with the same
unique features.
Therefore, I am recommending that the requirements for formal competitive sealed bidding be waived, and these
findings be approved: Vanguard Response System, a Non-Minority/Non-Local vendor, located at 921 Barton
Street, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, is the sole source provider for the purchase of a Blast Guard Air Dolly
System, to include chemicals and training. Funding, at an amount not to exceed $33,989.90, is available from the
Urban Areas Security Initiative Grant Program 11, Account Code No. 110111.280910.6.40.
APPROVED BY:
s, CPPB
ent Officer
DATE: