Date Posted: 10/13/2023
Date of Emergency Purchase: 10/12/2023
Approved By: Anthony Ferrara

Description of the specific emergency:

An existing hot water tank in the HCI building ruptured and is not repairable. (It started with a pinhole leak but has expanded. We drained it and have the hot water shut off in building 0555.) So we have no hot water in one of our buildings currently. The hot water is needed in order for The Point restaurant and Starbucks to remain open (Board of Health will shut them down if we don’t have it), and our Lab Support Services (LSS) will not be able to adequately clean our glassware for our research labs. Efforts have been made and documented ensuring this procurement has been conducted with as much competition as reasonably practical while mitigation risk. This vendor was the only one that had this tank in stock and can have it installed immediately. This transaction for short term repairs was seen as an emergency, specifically regarding the universities requirement to prevent circumstances threating safety, property, including presenting a risk of causing financial harm to the university or significantly disrupting university operation.

The Utah Procurement Code provides that the Director of Purchasing or designee may authorize an emergency procurement and make the following information available on the University Purchasing Website within 14 days of the emergency procurement, as described in the Utah Procurement Code 63G-6a-803.

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