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Authorize a contract for safety data sheet management system and chemical inventory services for all City departments with HSI Workplace Compliance Solutions, Inc., for an initial term of three years with up to two one-year extension options, in an amount not to exceed $612,000. Funding: $51,000 is available in the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Operating Budgets of various City departments.
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Lead Department
Financial Services Department.
Client Department(s)
All City Departments.
Fiscal Note
Funding in the amount of $51,000 is available in the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Operating Budgets of various City departments.
Funding for the remaining contract term is contingent upon available funding in future budgets.
Purchasing Language:
Sole Source.
MBE/WBE:
Sole source contracts are exempt from the City Code Chapter 2-9B (Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business Enterprise Procurement Program); therefore, no subcontracting goals were established.
For More Information:
Direct questions regarding this Recommendation for Council Action to the Financial Services Department - Central Procurement at FSDCentralProcurementRCAs@austintexas.gov or 512-974-2500.
Additional Backup Information:
The contract will provide the City access to a web-based safety data sheet (SDS) management system and chemical inventory services for hazardous materials and chemicals. An SDS is a standardized way of communicating the identification, composition, handling, properties, and emergency control measures for hazardous chemicals stored in the workplace. The management system will provide the City access to SDSs for chemicals used at City facilities and the ability to monitor and develop reports for these chemicals.
Congress enacted the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act or EPCRA in 1986 to establish requirements for federal, state, and local governments, tribes, and industry regarding emergency planning and "community right-to-know" reporting on hazardou...
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