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r � <br /> COUNCIL COMMUNICATION FORM ' <br /> PURCHASING & INTERNAL SERVICES MEMORANDUM I <br /> #04 - 13 I� <br /> March 8, 2004 I <br /> TO: Honorable Mayor Osborne and City Council <br /> FROM: Steve Garman, City Manager <br /> Beth Couter, Financial Management Director <br /> � Deborah M. Perry, Purchasing Supervisort� <br /> SUBJECT: Bids for diesel exhaust extraction systems <br /> SUMMARY RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends awarding contract to Midwest Air <br /> Pro, Inc. to furnish one (1) Nederman Magnatrack diesel exhaust extraction system for Fire <br /> Station #4 located at 2760 N. 22nd Street and one (1) Nederman Magnatrack diesel exhaust <br /> extraction system for Fire Station#6 located at 1880 Rt. 51 South. <br /> BACKGROUND: The extraction systems help eliminate diesel soot and carcinogens in the <br /> cold diesel smoke when starting the fire trucks inside the fire station. A large hose is connected <br /> to the tailpipe of the fire truck and a fan that extracts the smoke out of the building. <br /> The low bid of Clean Air Concepts does not meet City of Decatur specifications as follows: <br /> Citv of Decatur Specifications Clean Air Concepts <br /> - The balancer function is to keep the This system allows the The hose needs to be <br /> hose suspended off the floor during hose to drape down stored up and out of <br /> connection and use of the system and between the fixed of the way to ensure a <br /> retracts and suspends the hose in a ductwork and the cradle safer approach to the <br /> stored position when the system is attachment point. apparatus during a <br /> disconnected from the vehicle for run. <br /> whatever reason. <br />