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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Office of the Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County
Vendor: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Enterprise-wide mental health services for minors
Contract Value: $4,652,473.00
Contract period: 12/1/2017-11/30/2018
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2018: $4,652,473.00
Accounts: Juvenile Probation, 326-260; Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, 440-272
Contract Number(s): 1753-16842
Concurrences:
The contract-specific goal set on this contract was zero.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: The Office of the Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County (OCJ) requests a new, one-year contract with Northwestern University to clinically staff and manage mental health services for court-involved youth in Cook County. The contract is designed to avoid a lapse in mental health services during the interim period that a Request for Proposals (RFP) for fully integrated mental health services is completed and a new vendor is selected. The interim contract would replace the two separate, current contracts with (1) The Isaac Ray Center, Inc., which expires 11/30/2017; and, (2) Northwestern University, which expires 12/31/2017. The Isaac Ray Center provides clinical mental health services at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) under contract number 10-41-68; and Northwestern University currently manages the Cook County Juvenile Court Clinic under contract 10-41-14.
In the spring of 2015, as part of the transition process from federal oversight of the JTDC, Chief Judge Timothy Evans appointed The Circuit Court of Cook County Committee on the Transition of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center ("The Committee"). The Committee included expert-led subcommittees that were designed to make recommendations for system improvements concerning youth-serving departments. The Committee co...
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