2026-0740

Councilor Weber called Docket #0740, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more lease, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2027 in an amount not to exceed Twenty-Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($28,500,000.00). These funds are to be used by various City departments for the acquisition of equipment in furtherance of their respective governmental functions. The list of equipment includes: computer equipment (hardware and software), motor vehicles and trailers, ambulances, firefighting equipment, office equipment, telecommunications equipment, photocopying equipment, medical equipment, school and educational equipment, school buses, parking meters, street lighting installation, traffic signal equipment and equipment functionally related to, and components of, the foregoing, from the Committee on Ways and Means. No objection being heard, the matter was properly before the body. On motion of Councilor Weber, the order was read a second time and again passed: yeas 11 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), nays 1 (Mejia), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).

Mayor Order Passed Introduced April 2, 2026

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Amount: $28.5M
Runs until: Not stated in the agenda text — the term is normally in the signed agreement, attached to the original item ↗
Type: purchase
Field: Technology

technology contracts in MA that end within a year →
Governments publish the end date in the award. That date is when the work goes back out to bid, and it is usually stated years ahead.

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Committee: Committee on Ways and Means
Introduced: April 2, 2026
On agenda: April 8, 2026
Passed: June 24, 2026

Full text & attachments ↗ Briefing (PDF) Rebid Radar

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