Item - 2021.GL21.26

The General Government and Licensing Committee recommends that:

1. City Council receive the report (March 15, 2021) from the Chief Procurement Officer for information.

The purpose of this report is to advise on the emergency non-competitive procurements of goods and services that are over $500,000 in value that were processed by the Purchasing and Materials Management Division on behalf of various divisions relating to the City of Toronto's response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency (COVID-19).  Section 195-7.4B of Chapter 195, Purchasing, requires that any emergency non-competitive over the value of $500,000 must be reported to Council for information.

This is a follow up report to GL15.5, Procurement of Emergency Goods and Services in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic which covered emergency procurement from March 16 to July 31, 2020.  This report covers the time period of August 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020.  In that time, the City entered into 2 emergency non-competitive contracts over the value of $500,000. The total value of these emergency non-competitive contracts is $1,950,000.00, net of Harmonized Sales Tax ($1,984,320.00, net of Harmonized Sales Tax recoveries). 

To provide a complete picture, Purchasing and Materials Management Division also processed 21 emergency non-competitive contracts $500,000 and less during the same time period.  The total value of these non-competitive contracts is $4,112,669.90, net of Harmonized Sales Tax ($4,185,052.89, net of Harmonized Sales Tax recoveries).