Specifications include, but are not limited to: a. Knoxville's Community Development Corporation (“KCDC”) is the public housing authority for the City of Knoxville and for Knox County in Tennessee. KCDC’s affordable housing property portfolio includes more than 26 properties with approximately 3,600 dwelling units. In addition to operating its public housing apartments, KCDC oversees approximately 4,097 Section 8 Vouchers and 76 Moderate Rehabilitation units. Additionally, KCDC serves as the redevelopment agency for the City of Knoxville, managing redevelopment areas, TIFs, and PILOTs. b. Definition/Clarification: KCDC uses “suppliers” as inclusive of various words describing interested parties often called “bidders,” “contractors,” “firms,” “proposers” and “vendors.” c. KCDC has thousands of refrigerators, stoves, water heaters and some washers, dryers and dishwashers in its units. KCDC performs many maintenance services on its appliances and from time to time needs to purchase repair and/or replacement appliance parts. d. KCDC intends these specifications to result in the selection of a capable supplier(s) to provide replacement parts and supplies as needed. KCDC will either pick up needed parts (most common method) or require prompt delivery of ordered parts (rare). Accordingly, it is important that the supplier(s) be conveniently located to the majority of KCDC’s locations. e. KCDC requests a “discount off percentage” for non‐specified itemssince KCDC may need other items from time to time. The discount can be “0” if necessary. The supplier(s) must indicate to what pricing standard the discount applies. For instance, the discount percentage could apply to shelf price, catalog price, jobber’s price, et cetera. f. KCDC has identified a number of specific commonly purchased items for the supplier to provide a firm fixed price. These items are in the pricing section of this document. g. Pricing information is entered in Solicitation Document D.
