AGENDA REPORT
REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION
DATE: 1/16/2019
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Fire Department
SUBJECT:
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City Council consideration of a purchase order for Zoll Auto Pulse equipment in the amount of $153,220.50 and General Fund appropriation of $153,220.50.
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommended action
That the City Council:
1. Approve the purchase of 10 Zoll AutoPulse Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Units pursuant to Corona Municipal Code 3.08.140 (E) as Exceptions to Competitive Bidding - Non-Public Projects, the purpose of bidding is otherwise accomplished.
2. Authorize the Purchasing Manager to issue purchase orders to Zoll Medical Corporation in the amount of $153,220.50.
3. Authorize the appropriation of $153,220.50 from the unappropriated General Fund Balance-City Equipment Reserve, to the Fire Department's operating budget for the purchase of 10 Zoll AutoPulse CPR Units.
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ANALYSIS:
The Corona Fire Department requests an exception to bidding pursuant to CMC 3.08.140(E) to approve the purchase of (10) new Zoll AutoPulse Units to improve Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and cardiac arrest outcomes. The Zoll AutoPulse is the only device of its kind, automatically sizing the patient and providing circumferential compressions squeezing the patient's entire chest to improve blood flow to the heart and brain. All other units on the market utilize a simple piston driven compression foot to simply push straight down on the patient's chest which in clinical trials have been shown far less effective then circumferential squeezing.
The Corona Fire Department Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Division and EMS Technical Advisory Group (TAG) have been in pursuit of increasing department CPR performance as well as up to date technology to improve service to our community in the form of improving survivability rates from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). As a department, we have initiated numerous measures t...
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