title
PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Office of Capital Planning & Policy
Vendor: Interior Investments, LLC., Lincolnshire, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Herman Miller Furniture
Contract Value: $1,500,000.00
Contract period: 2/1/2014 2015 - 9/30/2016
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2015 $1,500,000.00
Accounts: 20000 - County Physical Plant
Contract Number(s): 1430-14165
Concurrences:
Vendor has met the Minority and Women Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: This contract would allow the Office of the Capital Planning and Policy to purchase furniture for 277 Full Time Employees as part of the Public Defender Office renovation project. This is a Comparable Government Procurement pursuant to Section 34-140 of the Procurement Code. Interior Investments is an authorized dealer of Herman Miller. Herman Miller, and its authorized dealers was previously awarded a contract through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process through U.S. Communities, a national government purchasing cooperative sponsored by the National Association of Counties (NACo) and the National Institute of Government Purchasing (NIGP), and in cooperation with the County of Fairfax, Virginia. Cook County wishes to leverage this procurement effort. end