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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Vendor: Interior Investments, Lincolnshire, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Office Furniture
Contract Value: $193,342.90
Contract period: 4/10/2014- 04/09/2015, with one (1), one (1) year renewal option
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2014 $193,342.90
Accounts: 717-530
Contract Number(s): 1490-13448
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs
Summary: This request is for the purchase, delivery and installation of office furniture. This furniture is needed to house employees for a newly established Department, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). ERP will utilize this contract for a specific scope of goods and services.
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 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, VA. U.S. Communities is a group purchasing organization which services public agencies, and its procurements are led by public procurement agencies. Cook County wishes to leverage this procurement effort.end