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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Office of the Chief Judge
Vendor: The Chicago Community Trust, Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute.
Good(s) or Service(s): Community Outreach Services for the Circuit Court's Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program.
Contract Value: $2,193,885.00
Contract period: 12/1/2013, through 11/30/2016
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2014 $715,100.00, FY 2015 $726,600.00, FY 2016 $752,185.00
Accounts: 310-260
Contract Number(s): 1323-12465 B
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Officer of the Chief Procurement Officer concurs
Summary: A Request for Proposal was issued for Courts Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program. An RFP process was followed in accordance with the Cook County Procurement Code. The Chicago Community Trust (CCT) offers the best value to the County and is recommended for the award of Community Outreach Services for the Circuit Court's Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program.
The Chicago Community Trust will coordinate and administer community outreach services for the Circuit Court's free Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program. CCT's services include the distribution of informational brochures in those Cook County communities hardest hit by the mortgage foreclosure crisis through one-on-one home visits and at community meetings. As of 9/30/2013, CCT's representatives made more than 100,000 visits to more than 51,000 homes and participated in 433 community meetings and events throughout Cook County.
The Chicago Community Trust was originally selected to manage the program's community outreach services with the initiation of the Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program in March 2010.end