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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary documents including any necessary subsequent amendments, with Teknion LLC, of Mount Laurel, NJ, for the furnishing and delivering of furniture solutions with related accessories and services on an as-needed basis, on the same terms and conditions afforded to Sourcewell, a state of Minnesota local government agency and service cooperative, in a total amount of $2,000,000, authorize a 20 percent contingency in the amount of $400,000, for a total contract amount not to exceed $2,400,000, until the Sourcewell contract expires on February 18, 2024, with the option to renew for as long as the Sourcewell contract is in effect, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Districts 2,5)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into a contract with Teknion LLC (Teknion), for the furnishing and delivering of furniture solutions with related accessories and services on an as-needed basis. The Police Department initiated a large departmentwide restructuring that included the creation of the New Office of Constitutional Policing in Fiscal Year 2021 (FY 21), the new Community Services Bureau and Executive Communications Division in FY 23, and has proposed the creation of a Center for Crime Information Analysis in FY 24, among other changes. These new operations require reconfiguring sections of the Public Safety Building and the Police Department area at 3205 Lakewood Blvd., to accommodate the new employee working groups. This project aims to not only redesign office layouts to match the new organizational structure, but to provide ergonomic furnishings that will help reduce employee injury and fatigue. Major renovations have not been completed to the professional workspaces in the Public Safety Building for over 20 years. Teknion’s product line will be used to replace over two hundred employee cubicles.
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