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the Purchasing Division resulted in a total savings of $3,527.00 for these two items in the account #111-245-541-66.49 under discussion. Since the low bid of $5,285.00 is in excess of 10% of what was budgeted, additional funds must be identified and authorized to purchase this critically needed piece of equipment. A total of $1,285.00 is needed. ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSIS The only alternative to utilizing $1,285.00 in excess funds from account #111-245-541-66.49 would be not to purchase the Conflict Monitor Tester, at all. In essence this would be a "Do Nothing Alternative". Given the critical need for this "State of the Art" Conflict Monitor, with our ever increasing number of Traffic Control Signals which need constant testing to protect the County's liability, the only feasible alternative would be to utilize the excess funds already in the Traffic Engineering Divisions budget to purchase this piece of equipment. Upon receipt of the bids, I noticed that _the first and second low bidders were within $63.00 of one another which indicated the County received fair competitive bids for this product. Even though the low bid was within the range I expected, I initiated inquires to my fellow Traffic Engineers in the state and verified that we indeed received fair competitive bids. Since all of the equipment which was not cut from this years budget is deemed to be absolutely necessary to protect County liability and motorists safety, the fact that we are well below overall spending in -our Capital Budget would indicate that the prudent action would be to allocate the additional $1,285.00 and purchase the Conflict Monitor Tester. RECOMENDATIONS AND FUNDING Based upon my research which is spelled out in my May 18, 1990 memo, it is recommended that $1,285.00 be added to the budgeted $4,000.00 and the Conflict Monitor Tester be purchased as soon as possible. The Concrete Saw, Tar Pot, and the Conflict Monitor Tester are all budgeted in account #111-245-541-66.49 and therefore no budget line item transfer is actually needed to make this purchase. ON MOTION by Commissioner Scurlock, SECONDED by Com- missioner Wheeler, the Board unanimously awarded Bid #90-70 for a Conflict Monitor Tester to the low bidder, Southern Aluminum, in the amount of $5,285, per the following Bid Tabulation, and also approved the addition of $1,285 of Excess Budgeted Funds to the budgeted $4,000 as recommended by staff. JUN- 12 1990 41 boor