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PROPOSED CONTRACT AMENDMENT
Department(s): Office of the Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County
Vendor: McDermott Center, Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to increase contract
Good(s) or Service(s): McDermott Center currently is under contract to provide specialized services to nonviolent offenders participating in the Circuit Court's Drug Treatment Court Program. These services include group and individual counseling provided in both residential and outpatient settings. The purpose of the amendment would be to increase the contract amount to provide services to 32 additional participants in the Circuit Court's two Adult Redeploy Illinois Program specialty courts, Access to Community Treatment Program (ACT) and Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI).
Original Contract Period: 6/1/2013 - 5/31/2016
Proposed Contract Period Extension: N/A
Total Current Contract Amount Authority: $207,000.00
Original Approval (Board or Procurement): 5/29/2013, $207,000.00
Previous Board Increase(s) or Extension(s): N/A
Previous Chief Procurement Officer Increase(s) or Extension(s): N/A
This Increase Requested: $173,131.00: $138,131.00 for the Access to Community Treatment Program (ACT Court) and $35,000.00 for the Adult Redeploy Illinois Program (ARI Court)
Potential Fiscal Impact: None, grant funded
Accounts: 7931301-260 - $138,131.00; 9401303-260 - $35,000.00
Contract Number(s): 1388-12593
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs
Summary: The original and current amount of the McDermott Center contract for services to the Drug Treatment Court Program is $207,000.00. That contract was approved by the Cook County Board of Commissioners on 5/29/2013. McDermott Center was selected to provide services to the ACT and ARI Courts based on their record in providing quality service, service capacities and geographic locations.
The ARI Court and the ACT court are problem-solving courts that target different offender populations but share the common goal to divert defendants with behavioral needs from incarceration into community-based services. ACT Court is a new program in which participants with a new arrest for Class four felony possession of a controlled substance or Class three and four retail theft offenses, and with at least one prior commitment to the Illinois Department of Corrections. The ARI Court was established in February 2012 and targets offenders who are currently on probation and have noncompliant behavior. The ARI Court has accepted 343 cases of which 146 have been successfully diverted from incarceration.
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