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File #: 78433    Version: 1 Name: A Resolution authorizing a non-competitive purchase of more than $50,000 in goods from QuantAQ, Inc.for the purchase of air quality monitoring equipment to implement the Building Sensor and Community Partnership Networks for Air Quality project.
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 6/14/2023 In control: Mayor's Office
On agenda: 7/11/2023 Final action: 7/11/2023
Enactment date: 7/14/2023 Enactment #: RES-23-00491
Title: A Resolution authorizing a non-competitive purchase of more than $50,000 in goods from QuantAQ, Inc.for the purchase of air quality monitoring equipment to implement the Building Sensor and Community Partnership Networks for Air Quality project.
Sponsors: Satya V. Rhodes-Conway, Regina M. Vidaver, Derek Field, Juliana R. Bennett, MGR Govindarajan, Marsha A. Rummel
Attachments: 1. QuantAQ - Non-Competitive Selection Request - CC Approval Required June 2023.pdf
Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution authorizes a non-competitive purchase of $141,500 from QuantAQ, Inc. for the purchase of air quality monitoring equipment to implement the Building Sensor and Community Partnership Networks for Air Quality project. Grant funding for the purchase is available in the 2023 adopted Sustainability Improvements capital project budget. No additional appropriation is required.
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A Resolution authorizing a non-competitive purchase of more than $50,000 in goods from QuantAQ, Inc.for the purchase of air quality monitoring equipment to implement the Building Sensor and Community Partnership Networks for Air Quality project.

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WHEREAS, the City of Madison successfully applied for funding through the U.S. EPA’s Enhanced Air Quality Monitoring for Communities grant program for a project titled “Building Sensor and Community Partnership Networks for Air Quality in Madison, Wisconsin”; and

WHEREAS, the Common Council amended the 2023 Adopted Mayor’s Office Sustainability Improvements Project Capital Budget to accept a $429,746 grant award from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and authorized the Mayor and City Clerk to execute the associated grant agreement with U.S. EPA via RES-23-00385 enacted on 5/19/2023 (File# 77378); and

WHEREAS, QuantAQ, Inc. develops low-cost, professional-grade air quality sensors to enable highly distributed air quality measurements to generation actionable information about both gas- and particle-based pollutants; and

WHEREAS, QuantAQ, Inc.'s MODULAIR-PM provides real-time measurements of particulate matter concentrations (PM1, PM2.5, and PM10) and particle size distribution using a novel combination of multiple light-scattering-based particle sensors; and

WHEREAS, MODULAIR-PM sensors were identified as the air quality monitoring equipment to be used the approved grant application to the U.S. EPA; and

WHEREAS, for the reasons explained above and in the attached Noncompetitive Selection...

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