Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to modify an existing contract with Think Make Live Youth for gun violence intervention services in an amount not to exceed $86,000.00 for a new contract amount of $152,000.00. Columbus Public Health has a need to continue culturally sensitive community-based gun violence intervention programming that addresses high risk behaviors to decrease gun violence that occurs in the city. The program is expected to be a yearlong intervention, with weekly group sessions that offer services to target individual’s specific needs. The contract period is from July 18th, 2023 to September 30, 2025.
This is the first modification to the original underlying contract authorized by Ordinance 1874-2023. This contractor is a nonprofit organization and is exempt from certification. These services were advertised through Bonfire (RFQ024375) according to bidding requirements of the City Code.
Why the need for additional goods or services could not be foreseen at the time the contract was initially awarded? This contract modification will allow the program to expand to include more sites
Why it would not be in the city’s best interests to have the additional contract requirements awarded through other procurement processes specified in this chapter? We would like to expand the current pilot program Guns Down, which is set to end July 18, 2024.
How was the price for these additional goods or services determined? This amount was determined by the salaries and fringe benefits for employees to work new sites.
Emergency action is being requested in order to approve this ordinance prior to the current contract end date of July 18, 2023 and allowing these essential gun violence intervention services to continue uninterrupted for our most vulnerable communities.
FISCAL IMPACT: $86,000.00 is budgeted in the Health Special Purpose Fund for gun violence intervention services.
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