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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Office of the Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County
Vendor: Chapin Hall Center for Children, Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Services; technical and research assistance for reimagining youth detention
Contract Value: $836,862.00
Contract period: 5/1/2024 5/17/2024 - 4/30/2025
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2024 $490,000.00, FY 2025 $346,862.00
Accounts: 11100.1326.35520.520470
Contract Number(s): 2450-03200
Concurrences:
The Contract Specific Goal set on this contract is Zero.
The Chief Procurement Officer Concurs.
Summary: The Office of the Chief Judge seeks approval of a contract with Chapin Hall Center for Children for the purpose of providing best practice research and reporting to the Chief Judge’s implementation team for the court’s reimagining youth detention programming and specification of best practices in centers of care for youth. This work will encompass recommendations for Requests for Proposals/Requests for Qualifications for the design and development of such centers with community based organizations and/or county owned facilities as appropriate to meet the needs of young people in the juvenile justice system. Project management work will include creating the project plan, stakeholder engagement, creating the communications plan, analyze system for potential track progress and outcomes, provide meeting facilitation and development of workshops to advance deliberation and decision making.
Additionally, Chapin Hall will provide data analytics support through the linkage of court, police, probation, detention, school and other data records to better understand the current composition and trends of young people in the juvenile court system with the goal of informing decisions regarding the location, number, and types of facilities required to meet current and future needs. Chapin Hall will also produce monthly reports of key JTDC indicators including without limitation admissions and exits, room confinement, and services. This work includes designing analytic datasets for analyses; consulting on both data structure and design of high-quality extract/transform/load processes to convert raw administrative data into these analytic formats.
This is a Sole Source Procurement pursuant to Section 34-139 of the Cook County Procurement Code.
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