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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Planning and Development
Vendor: CDM Smith, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Professional Services/Technical Assistance for CDBG-Disaster Recovery Program
Contract Value: $1,997,184.00
Contract period: 6/29/2016 - 12/31/2019
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2016 - FY 2019 - No fiscal impact; funded by HUD Grant
Accounts: 9411401.520830.100
Contract Number(s): 1685-15562
Concurrences:
The Vendor has met the Minority- and Woman-owned Business Enterprise Ordinance via direct participation.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: This contract is to retain the services of CDM Smith, Inc. to administer Cook County’s allocation of $83.6 Million from the United States Office of Housing and Urban Development in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recover grant funds in order to effectively and expeditiously assist the Department in its implementation of Cook County Disaster Recovery Program.
This is a Comparable Government Procurement pursuant to Section 34-140 of the Cook County Procurement Code. CDM Smith, Inc. was previously awarded a contract by the City of Minot, North Dakota through a Request for Proposals (RFP) process. Cook County would like to leverage this procurement effort.
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