Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Health Department provides laboratory testing of medical specimens generated by various programs within the Health Department. A "Request for Proposals for Reference Laboratory Services" for a two-year period was sent out in 2003, and Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals was awarded a contract. This ordinance will authorize funding for the second year of a two-year period. Emergency action is requested to ensure continued testing services for Health Department patients. The Contract Compliance number is 314394942.
FISCAL IMPACT: $134,000 is budgeted in the 2004 Health Special Revenue Fund to provide funding for this contract.
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals to provide laboratory testing services for various Health Department programs; to authorize the expenditure of $134,000 from the Health Special Revenue Fund to pay the costs thereof; and to declare an emergency. ($134,000)
Body
WHEREAS, proposals were formally submitted through the RFP process for laboratory testing services for various programs of the Health Department; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to enter into the second year of a two-year contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals; and,
WHEREAS, emergency action is requested to ensure continued testing services for Health Department patients.
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare, and to ensure continued testing services for Health Department patients; Now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Board of Health is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals for laboratory testing of medical specimens for various programs of the Health Department for the period of February 1, 2004 through January 31, 2005.
SECTION 2. That to pay the cost of said contract, the expenditure of $134,000 is hereby authorized from the Health Special Revenue Fund, Fund No. 250, Department of Health, Department No. 50-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3408 as follows:
OCA: 502054 Amount: $80,000
OCA: 502047 Amount: $54,000
SECTION 3. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.