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PROPOSED CONTRACT AMENDMENT
Department(s): Circuit Court of Cook County, Office of the Chief Judge
Vendor: Presence Behavioral Health, Broadview, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to extend and increase contract
Good(s) or Service(s): Mental Health Counseling and Aftercare Referral Services
Original Contract Period: 10/1/2010 - 9/30/2012
Proposed Contract Period Extension: 1/1/2015 - 6/30/2015
Total Current Contract Amount Authority: $182,000.00
Original Approval (Board or Procurement): 10/5/2010, $120,000.00
Previous Board Increase(s) or Extension(s): (9/11/2013, Extension 10/1/2013 - 1/31/2014); (5/21/2014, Increase $50,000.00, Extension 2/1/2014 - 12/31/2014)
Previous Chief Procurement Officer Increase(s) or Extension(s): (9/27/2012, Increase $12,000.00, Extension 10/01/2012 - 2/28/2013); (02/01/13, Extension 3/1/2013 - 9/30/2013)
This Increase Requested: $45,500.00
Potential Fiscal Impact: FY2015 - $45,500.00
Accounts: 310-260
Contract Number(s): 10-41-163
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: A contract extension and increase are requested to authorize Presence Behavioral Health to continue providing services while a new RFP is completed. The Circuit Court rejected the results of a previous RFP because of its decision that the court and the community would be better served by contracting with multiple community-based vendors. Presence Behavioral Health Program participants are offenders who are diverted from incarceration. Services cover case management, as well as mental health, psychiatric and substance abuse interventions.
The Circuit Court's Specialty/Treatment Court Program operates a network of 19 courts in Chicago and across suburban Cook County which are dedicated to providing mental health treatment, veterans support, drug treatment and support to persons charged with felony prostitution. The program helps low level criminal defendants who suffer from an underlying mental health, social or substance abuse problem from becoming repeat offenders. The hallmark of the program is intensive judicial supervision and the delivery of treatment and services from community-based sources, such as Presence which has provided services to the Circuit Court's Specialty/Treatment Courts Program since 2010.
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