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PROPOSED CONTRACT AMENDMENT
Department(s): Circuit Court of Cook County, Office of the Chief Judge
Vendor: Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC), Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to extend and increase contract
Good(s) or Service(s): Intensive case management, outreach, recovery support and toxicology services for participants in the Circuit Court’s grant-funded Adult Redeploy Illinois, Access to Community Treatment (ACT) Court program.
Original Contract Period: 10/1/2013 - 6/30/2014
Proposed Contract Period Extension: 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016
Total Current Contract Amount Authority: $220,813.00
Original Approval (Board or Procurement): 12/23/2013, $119,825.00
Previous Board Increase(s) or Extension(s): 10/8/2014: $100,988.00; 10/1/2014 - 6/30/2015
Previous Chief Procurement Officer Increase(s) or Extension(s): 7/1/2014: 7/1/2014-9/30/2014
This Increase Requested: $206,466.60
Potential Fiscal Impact: None, grant funded contract
Accounts: 793-260
Contract Number(s): 1360-13122
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: A contract extension and increase is requested to authorize TASC to continue intensive case management, outreach, recovery support and toxicology services in conjunction with a new grant received for the same corresponding one year period, 7/1/2015, to 6/30/2016. Grant-funded program services under contract 1360-13122, which began in January 2014, are scheduled to expire on 6/30/2015.
The Circuit Court Criminal Division’s Adult Redeploy Illinois, Access to Community Treatment (ACT) Court seeks to help certain low-level criminal defendants suffering from substance abuse problems from becoming repeat offenders and being incarcerated. The ACT Court achieves this goal by providing behavioral health, vocational and educational treatment services from community-based sources, such as TASC, combined with intensive court supervision. As of 3/31/2015, 106 participants have been admitted into the program. The program has achieved a retention rate of 79 percent, well above the rate of drug courts nationally, despite the challenging nature of the population. As the Designated State Agency for court treatment programs as a condition of probation, TASC is the only authorized contractor and is uniquely qualified to act as an intermediary between the court system and the treatment community.
This is a Sole Source Procurement pursuant to Section 34.-139 of the Cook County Procurement Code.
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