Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Safety to modify the existing subscription contract with RQI Partners LLC in the amount of $118,360.20 for the Division of Fire's Resuscitation Quality Improvement Program subscription. The Columbus Fire Division has a need to continue it's subscription to RQI Partners LLC's Resuscitation Quality Improvement Program to manage the division's paramedic CPR certifications and associated training. This program will continue to assist the Columbus Fire Division in managing the CPR certifications of personnel using American Heart Association (AHA) training/certification professionals and portable simulation stations of evaluation. This program provides immediate feedback to improve performance, communicates metrics via tracking software that measures success, and will reduce the division's reliance on costly in-classroom recertification that causes overtime for the backfilling of personnel.
This is the second year of a three year subscription ~ this ordinance authorizes the second year subscription fee of $118,360.20/year.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: RQI Partners LLC #83-0935798 ~ Vendor 029843
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency action is requested in order to renew this important training program immediately.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $118,360.20 from the General Fund, where the expense for this contract between the Columbus Division of Fire and RQI Partners LLC is budgeted for 2021. This ordinance is contingent upon the passage of the 2021 General Fund Budget, ordinance 2502-2020.
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To authorize the Public Safety Director to modify a subscription contract with RQI Partners LLC for Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) for the Division of Fire; to authorize the expenditure of $118,360.20 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($118,360.20)
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Fire has a need to modify the existing contract with RQI Partners LLC for a subscription to their Resuscitation Quality Improvement Program (RQI) which will manage the Division's paramedic CPR certifications; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to continue to subscribe to RQI Partner's Resuscitation Quality Improvement Program (RQI) for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Public Safety be and is hereby authorized to modify an existing subscription contract with RQI Partners LLC for access to the Resuscitation Quality Improvement Program (RQI) on behalf of the Division of Fire.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $118,360.20, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be expended from the general operating fund 1000-100010 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That for the 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.