TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF NOVEMBER 7, 2019
COMMITTEE ON PROCUREMENT
Mr. Brian A. Perkovich, Executive Director
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Authorization to extend purchase order with Argonne National Laboratory to Furnish and Deliver Microbial Source Monitoring Via Metagenomics, Account 201-50000-612430, Purchase Order 3078207
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Dear Sir:
On December 20, 2012, the Board of Commissioners authorized the Director of Procurement and Materials Management to issue a purchase order and enter into an agreement with the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), to Furnish and Deliver Microbial Source Monitoring Via Metagenomics, in an amount not to exceed $1,931,000.00. The purchase order expires on December 31, 2019.
The change order is necessary to extend the purchase order through July 31, 2020 to allow ANL to complete the project’s final report in 2020 with sufficient time for a thorough review by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (District) as well as peers. ANL will complete all required laboratory analyses work by December 31, 2019. There is no increase to the purchase order value.
This change order is in compliance with the Illinois Criminal Code, since the change is due to circumstances not reasonably foreseeable at the time the agreement was signed, and is in the best interest of the District.
It is hereby recommended that the Board of Commissioners authorize the Director of Procurement and Materials Management to extend the purchase order termination date from December 31, 2019 to July 31, 2020.
Requested, Edward W. Podczerwinski, Director of Monitoring and Research, EWP:KB:HZ:GR:kq
Recommended, Darlene A. LoCascio, Director of Procurement and Materials Management
Respectfully Submitted, Barbara J. McGowan, Chairman Committee on Procurement
Disposition of this agenda item will be documented in the official Regular Board Meeting Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for November 7, 2019