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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Cook County Clerk
Vendor: Knowink LLC, St Louis, Missouri
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Electronic Pollbook Services
Contract Value: $15,664,375.00
Contract period: 1/21/2022 - 12/31/2026
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY2022 $9,506,875.00, FY2023 $2,293,125.00, FY2024 $1,288,125.00, FY2025 $1,288,125.00, FY2026 $1,288,125.00
Accounts: 11286.1110.60162.560225 ($8,480,000) ; 11306.1110.35165.520830 ($1,027,875)
Contract Number(s): 2105-18725
Concurrences:
The contract-specific goal set on this contract was zero.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: The Cook County Clerk’s Office is requesting authorization to piggyback on Electronic Pollbook used by DuPage County provides Cook County the specific technology that will provide voters with secured check in, same day registration and flexibility in application of special circumstance voting. This solution will replace the current electronic pollbooks used to check in voters at each polling place.
This is a Comparable Government Procurement pursuant to Section 34-140 of the Cook County Procurement Code. Knowink LLC was previously awarded a contract by County of DuPage through a Request for Proposal process. Cook County wishes to leverage this procurement effort.
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