Item - 2022.GL30.14

The General Government and Licensing Committee recommends that:

1. City Council receive the report (April 8, 2022) from the Chief Procurement Officer, Purchasing and Materials Management 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 Purchasing and Materials Management on behalf of various divisions relating to the City of Toronto's response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency (COVID-19) for the period of October 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022.  Section 195-7.4B of Chapter 195, Purchasing, requires that any emergency non-competitive contract over the value of $500,000 must be reported to Council for information.

This is a follow up report to GL21.26, Procurement of Emergency Goods and Services in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic which covered emergency procurement from August 1 to December 31, 2020.  Between October 1, 2021 and January 31, 2022, the City entered into 4 emergency non-competitive contracts over the value of $500,000, and amended 1 of the emergency non-competitive contracts.  The total value of these emergency non-competitive contracts, including the amendment, is $44,610,000, net of Harmonized Sales Tax ($45,395,136 net of Harmonized Sales Tax recoveries).  Three of those emergency non-competitive contracts was to respond to the Omicron variant through the purchase of Rapid Antigen Tests.  The final emergency non-competitive contract was in response to rapidly changing requirements related to reopening in October, 2021. 

There were no emergency non-competitive contracts related to COVID-19 above $500,000 entered into between January 1, 2021 and September 30, 2021.