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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />MAY 16, 2011 <br />TITLE: <br />CONTRACT AWARD TO BLAUER <br />MANUFACTURING COMPANY FOR <br />PERSONAL PROTECTIVE SUITS <br />(SPEC. NO. 11 -027) <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 15SReading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2"dReading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For_ <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Award a contract to Blauer Manufacturing Company, Inc. for Level 3 certified protective suits in an <br />amount not to exceed $1,004,850. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The United States Department of Homeland Security, Office of Grants and Training has developed <br />the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) funding program. This initiative was designed to enhance <br />the domestic preparedness of urban areas by ensuring that all emergency first responders have <br />adequate and appropriate equipment to prevent, respond to, and recover from acts of <br />terrorism. Santa Ana has been designated as an Urban Area Core City for the ninth year. The City of <br />Santa Ana has fiscal responsibility for the FY09 UASI Grant for the Anaheim /Santa Ana Urban Area <br />which encompasses 34 jurisdictions in Orange County. <br />Over the past three years, the Orange County Operational Area (OCOA) has been outfitted with new, <br />CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear) Certified personal protective ensembles <br />(protective suit & gas mask) from the Blauer Manufacturing Company. The protective ensemble was <br />selected as a result of a gap analysis identifying the necessary level of protection when responding to <br />a CBRN event/attack. In such an event the role of Law Enforcement and Fire personnel would be; <br />scene control, evidence preservation, and decontamination. This type of activity would take place in <br />the "warm zone" which requires a minimum of Level 3 protection per the National Fire Protection <br />Agency (NFPA) 1994 (2007 Edition) regulation. <br />At the time the original suits were purchased in 2009, Blauer was the sole supplier in the nation that <br />could provide a one - piece, single- mission, multiple donning /doffing, NFPA 1994 (2007 Edition) CBRN <br />certified Level 3 protective suit. The Los Angeles region law agencies and San Diego region law <br />agencies have also purchased the Blauer suit. <br />22A -1 <br />