Honorable Mayor and Members
of the City Council
City Hall
Sacramento, California
Subject:
Suspend Competitive Bidding for the Purchase of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals
and Supplies with Zoetis Petcare (Two-Thirds Vote Required) File ID: 2019-01179
Date: 30/8/2019
City council meeting
The city council meeting of Sacramento is made up of various bodies. The Mayor heads it. Apart
from the Mayor of Sacramento, one individual member from the eight districts of the city are
also members of this city council meeting. Also, various members of the different legislative
bodies like the Redevelopment agency and the Finance authority are made a part of this meeting.
Agenda
The agenda of a city council meeting can be defined as the main purpose behind the meeting
being held. Typically, there are various issues and disputes that are listened to and solved in a
city council meeting. The city council meeting held on 27 th August 2019 is chosen here. It
spanned for over 6 hours and dealt with various points of concern for the city. One of them was
the suspension of competitive bidding for the purchase of different veterinary pharmaceuticals as
well as supplies with the Zoetis Petcare (Sacramento, 2019).
Staff Report
The location of the issue at hand spanned the entire city of Sacramento. After a long discussion
on the topic, the recommendations reached by the city council were first of all to suspend all
activities about competitive bidding. A 2/3rd vote agreed that it was in the best interests of the
city to suspend the bidding activities presently. It was also decided to allow the Community
Development Department of Front Street Animal Shelter to be able to make purchases of
veterinary pharmaceuticals as well as supplies under the discount program offered by Zoetis
Shelter. The recommendations also asked for authorization of a $175,000 annual not-to-exceed
purchase order with the Zoetis till the fiscal year 2022-23. This allowance would make for a
significant help towards the issue being faced currently. The said recommendations were
proposed by strictly keeping in mind the prime interests of the city of Sacramento.
SWOT
Positives Negatives
Strengths Weakness
Internal Support in favor Lack of public knowledge
Ample financial resources Unable to meet the
to be spent demands completely
External Opportunities Threats
Future growth Changes in trends
Spin-off opportunities in Future demand
related areas requirements
STEEP (PEST)
Political Economic
Political dissent Stable economic conditions
Rigorous debate factor Threats of a recession in the future due
to the global context
Social Technological
The higher level of environmental A high rate of innovation
sustainability Future calls for changes in present
Augmenting factor if utility for various methods being used (De Vries et al.,
stakeholders 2016)