Explanation
BACKGROUND: The accounts receivable collection program within the City Attorney's Claims Division has been ongoing since 1996. At that time the City Attorney interviewed firms experienced with governmental accounts receivable and chose Scoliere & Associates (now known as Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson, LLP) and later Capital Recovery Systems, Inc. to provide these services.
The contracts with these companies have paid for themselves every year since as collections of previously past due accounts far exceed the amount paid to the collections firms.
This ordinance authorizes the City Attorney to extend the current contracts with the collection firms Capital Recovery Systems, Inc and Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson LLP (formerly Scoliere & Associates).
Title
To authorize and direct the City Attorney to extend contracts with Capital Recovery Systems, Inc and Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson LLP (formerly Scoliere & Associates) to authorize the City Attorney to expend up to Four Hundred Thousand and no/100 Dollars ($400,000.00) for services rendered pursuant thereto, to waive the competitive procurement provisions of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Codes and to declare an emergency ($400,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 3135-96 originally authorized the City Attorney to contract with Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson LLP (formerly Scoliere & Associates) and Ordinance No. 1833-98 originally authorized the City Attorney to contract with Capital Recovery Systems, Inc. for the collection of certain of the City's accounts receivable; and,
WHEREAS, the City Attorney has annually renewed the contracts with Capital Recovery Systems, Inc and Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson LLP (formerly Scoliere & Associates) for collection services; and
WHEREAS, it is in the City's interest to continue to contract with Capital Recovery Systems, Inc and Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson LLP (formerly Scoliere & Associates); a...
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