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Danbury board approves $369,729 STEM lab purchase for Career Academy after sole‑source certification
Summary
The Danbury City Board of Awards unanimously approved a $369,729 purchase of STEM lab equipment for Danbury Career Academy under a sole‑source certification and with state approval; the board noted the requisition cited anticipated reimbursement of about 80 percent and that the vendor was quoted under an MHEC cooperative contract.
Jake Bolkin, the purchasing agent for Danbury City, said the Board of Awards voted to approve a requisition for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) lab equipment for the Danbury Career Academy with a total quoted cost of $369,729. The requisition named the vendor in the record as "AEP Laboratories," and the spoken motion and subsequent discussion include variant spellings of the vendor (the record later refers to "AET" and "ADT" in motion text); the board acted on the vendor name shown on the submitted requisition and sole‑source paperwork.
The purchase was presented to the board with a sole‑source certification attached. Bolkin read that the certification referenced a letter from Dr. Kara Acemara, the superintendent of public schools, and that the state had provided written approval through David Barkin, identified in the record as the chief architect for Connecticut’s Department of Administrative Services. A board member moving the award said the city expects to receive roughly 80 percent reimbursement on the purchase under the funding arrangement.
Board discussion as recorded was limited to confirming the requisition, the attached sole‑source approval and the cooperative‑contract citation. The motion to award the purchase order under the sole‑source certification was moved and seconded and was declared carried unanimously.
The purchasing agent recorded the funding/charge code provided in the meeting record (DCA20223040‑7000.081) and said a purchase order will be issued. The board did not provide additional detail in the spoken record about the source of the anticipated reimbursement or the timeline for equipment delivery.
Because the transcript uses multiple variant spellings for the vendor name in motion text, the city procurement file and the written requisition should be consulted to confirm the vendor’s official, contractual name before final contract execution.
