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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Cook County Justice Advisory Council
Vendor: Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc, Boston, Massachusetts
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Technical Assistance Provision: Justice Reinvestment Project
Contract Value: $1,417,999.29
Contract period: 11/1/2024 - 10/31/2026, with two (2), one-year renewal options
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2024 $219,734.45, FY 2025 $712,411.18 FY 2026 $485,853.66
Accounts: 11286.1205.66464.520840
Contract Number(s): 2403-08120
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise Ordinance Via: Direct participation.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: The Justice Advisory Council seeks authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute a contract with Third Sector Capital for the ARPA initiative NT086 - Justice Reinvestment Project. The purpose of the Cook County Justice Reinvestment Project is to engage a technical assistance provider, in this case Third Sector Capital, to review and analyze Cook County's criminal justice and public safety budget development process and produce a report that includes, but is not limited to: (1) A descriptive overview of current spending; (2) identifying missions and goals, arrived at through meetings and facilitations, of each of the various agencies as relating to their budget requests; (3) flagging areas of possible duplicative efforts or programming and services; (4) recommendations on areas of the budget that could be shifted; and (5) a landscape analysis of best or emerging best practices in jurisdictions that have successfully reinvested criminal justice dollars into public health resources, community resources, or other areas that address root causes of or long-term solutions to crime and lack of safety.
Third Sector Capital was prequalified through the County's Request for Qualifications...
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