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 (SA001310) for a three-year period was advertised from 9/24/04 through 11/1/04, and Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals was awarded the contract. This ordinance will authorize funding for the third year of a three-year contract in the amount of $55,000 for laboratory testing services provided for the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic. Grant/Riverside is a nonprofit organization and is exempt from certification.
Emergency action is requested to ensure continued testing services for TB patients.
FISCAL IMPACT: All expenditures from this contract will be fully reimbursed by the grant received from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners for the TB Clinic
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals to provide laboratory testing services for the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic; to authorize the expenditure of $55,000 from the Health Department Grants Fund to pay the costs thereof; and to declare an emergency. ($55,000)
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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 third year of a three-year contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals; and,
WHEREAS, emergency action is necessary to ensure continued testing services to be available for TB patients; and,
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; 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 the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic for the period through January 31, 2008.
SECTION 2. That to pay the cost of said contract, the expenditure of $55,000 is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, Department of Health, Department No. 50-01, OCA Code 504055, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3408.
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.