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)