City of Columbus - File #: 0082-2004

• File #: 0082-2004
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 1/7/2004
• In control: Health, Housing & Human Services Committee
• On agenda: 2/9/2004
• Final action: 2/10/2004
• 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)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/10/2004	1	MAYOR	Signed
2/10/2004	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
2/9/2004	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
2/9/2004	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
1/23/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
1/22/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
1/22/2004	1	Auditor Reviewer	Contingent
1/22/2004	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
1/22/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
1/22/2004	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved	Pass
1/21/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
1/21/2004	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
1/21/2004	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
1/20/2004	1	Health Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
1/20/2004	1	HEALTH DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
1/7/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval

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 test...