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File #: 25-1416    Version: 1 Name: Juvenile Client Case Management System
Type: Contract (Technology) Status: Approved
File created: 2/6/2025 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 3/13/2025 Final action: 3/13/2025
Title: PROPOSED CONTRACT Department(s): Office of the Public Guardian, Circuit Court of Cook County Vendor: Journal Technologies, Inc, Los Angeles, California Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute Good(s) or Service(s): Juvenile Client Case Management System Contract Value: $3,405,411.00 Contract period: 5/1/2025 - 4/30/2030, with two (2) one-year renewal options Contract Utilization: The vendor has met the Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise Ordinance via: Direct participation and partial MWBE waiver. Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2025 $770,000.00, FY 2026 $1,135,120.00, FY 2027 $489,213.00, FY 2028 $499,989.00, FY 2029 $511,089.00, Accounts: 11620.1305.21120.560225. (Capital Project), 11100.1305.35320.540130 (Maintenance and Subscriptions). Contract Number(s): 2210-05241 Summary: The Cook County Public Guardian is appointed by the Chief Judge of Cook County Court System to manage the Cook County Office of t...
Indexes: TIMOTHY C. EVANS, Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County
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PROPOSED CONTRACT

Department(s): Office of the Public Guardian, Circuit Court of Cook County

Vendor: Journal Technologies, Inc, Los Angeles, California

Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute

Good(s) or Service(s): Juvenile Client Case Management System

Contract Value: $3,405,411.00

Contract period: 5/1/2025 - 4/30/2030, with two (2) one-year renewal options

Contract Utilization: The vendor has met the Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise Ordinance via: Direct participation and partial MWBE waiver.

Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2025 $770,000.00, FY 2026 $1,135,120.00, FY 2027 $489,213.00, FY 2028 $499,989.00, FY 2029 $511,089.00,

Accounts: 11620.1305.21120.560225. (Capital Project), 11100.1305.35320.540130 (Maintenance and Subscriptions).

Contract Number(s): 2210-05241

Summary: The Cook County Public Guardian is appointed by the Chief Judge of Cook County Court System to manage the Cook County Office of the Public Guardian. The Public Guardian is responsible for providing legal representation to various at-risk populations, including: (i) juveniles whom the State believes were abused or neglected by their parents or guardians; (ii) adults with disabilities who have been victims of fraud/abuse/etc., and (iii) children of parents involved in complex divorce/child custody proceedings. This proposed contract is for a case management system in the Juvenile Division of the Office of the Cook County Public Guardian (OPG).

By statute, every child who is the subject of abuse or neglect proceedings in Illinois must be appointed counsel for all stages of that proceeding (705 ILCS 405/1-5, 2-17). The Public Guardian (OPG) represents approximately 6,000 abused / neglected children. Most of these children are in the custody or guardianship of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Service (DCFS). The Public Guardian represents these children in the Circuit Court, Illinois Appellate ...

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