IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $437,799.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2022 Health Fund and awarding a twelve-month contract with one twelve-month option to extend for the furnishing of mental health services to inmates of the Department of Corrections to Advanced Correctional Healthcare of Peoria, IL, under the terms and conditions of Request for Proposals No. 54-22, at an actual cost to the County in an amount not to exceed $437,799.00 for 2022 and a total one-year cost not to exceed $875,598.00.
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ORDINANCE NO. 5699, November 7, 2022
INTRODUCED BY Theresa Cass Galvin, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Department of Corrections has a need for mental health services for the inmates in its custody; and,
WHEREAS, the Director of Finance and Purchasing has solicited formal proposals for these services via Request for Proposals No. 54-22; and,
WHEREAS, a total of nineteen notifications were distributed and viewed, and one response was received and evaluated; and,
WHEREAS, the only response received was by Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc., of Peoria, IL, the County's provider of inmate healthcare, dental, and pharmaceutical services at the detention center since 2018; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to section 1054.6 of the Jackson County Code, the Director of Finance and Purchasing and Sheriff recommend the award of a twelve-month contract with one twelve-month option to extend for the furnishing of mental health services to the inmates of the Department of Corrections, under the terms and conditions of Request for Proposals No. 54-22, to Advanced Correctional Healthcare of Peoria, IL, for the reason it has submitted the lowest and best bid; and,
WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to fund this award; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation be and hereby is made:
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