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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office
Vendor: YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Consent Clinic Program
Contract Value: $222,426.00
Contract period: 2/1/2024 - 9/30/2026
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2024 $74,142.00, FY 2025 $80,882.18, FY 2026 $67,401.82
Accounts: 11900.1250.54289.520840.00000.00000
Contract Number(s): 2305-09195
Concurrences:
The Contract Specific Goal set on this contract is Zero.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: The State’s Attorney Office requests authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute a contract with the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago for services related to the Consent Clinic Program. YWCA is the victim advocacy partner for the Consent Clinic program written into the FY 2023 Improving Criminal Justice Response (ICJR) Program. This contract will allow, through funding from the FY 2023 ICJR Program (CFDA # 16.590), reimbursement to the YWCA for two part time victim advocates responsible for providing in person support to victims of sexual assault where there are issues of consent. For more than 40 years, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago has been a leader and convener in the field of sexual violence advocacy, prevention and treatment and is the largest provider of comprehensive sexual assault services for adults and children in Illinois. Additionally, the YWCA operates the Rape Crisis Hotline which provides survivors and their significant others immediate support, crisis intervention, referrals for the City of Chicago and surrounding suburbs.
This is a Sole Source Procurement pursuant to Section 34-139 of the Cook County Procurement Code.
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