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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />May 4t'', 2009 <br />TITLE: <br />CONTRACT AWARD FOR PERSONAL <br />PROTECTIVE SUITS <br />(SOLE SOURCE, BLAUER MFG.) <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />^ As Recommended <br />^ As Amended <br />^ Ordinance on 151 Reading <br />^ Ordinance on 2"d Reading <br />^ Implementing Resolution <br />^ Set Public Hearing For_ <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Award a contract to Blauer Manufacturing to provide and deliver 5,400 <br />WZ9435 XRT Chemical/Biological (CBRN) Level 3 certified protective suits in <br />an amount not to exceed $2,021,608.13. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The United States Department of Homeland Security, Office of Grants and <br />Training has developed the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) funding <br />program. This initiative was designed to enhance the domestic preparedness <br />of urban areas by ensuring that all emergency first responders have <br />adequate and appropriate equipment to prevent, respond to, and recover from <br />acts of terrorism. Santa Ana has been designated as an Urban Area Core City <br />for the fifth year. The City of Santa Ana has fiscal responsibility for <br />the FY07 UASI grant for the Santa Ana / Anaheim Urban Area which <br />encompasses the 34 jurisdictions in Orange County. <br />The Orange County Operational Area COCOA) is in <br />protective suits when responding to a Chemical, <br />or Nuclear event/attack. In such an event, the <br />and occasionally fire personnel, would be <br />preservation, and some decontamination procedure <br />would take place in the "warm zone". Per the <br />Agency (NFPA) 1994 regulations, the warm zone rec <br />3 protection. <br />critical need of personal <br />Biological, Radiological, <br />role of Law Enforcement, <br />scene control, evidence <br />;. This type of activity <br />National Fire Protection <br />uires a minimum of Level <br />The Santa Ana Police Department requests to enter into a sole source <br />purchase with Blauer Manufacturing. Blauer is the only supplier in the <br />nation who can provide a one-piece, single-mission, multiple <br />donning/doffing, National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) 1994 (2007) CBRN <br />certified Level 3 protective suit (XRT suit). The single piece construction <br />is critical due to simplicity and quickness of donning, and front entry <br />design to allow donning without assistance or chemical tape. The Los <br />Angeles Police Department has purchased the XRT and other agencies in the <br />region are following suit. <br />22B-1 <br />