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PROPOSED CONTRACT AMENDMENT
Department(s): Capital Planning & Policy
Vendor: Koo, LLC, f/k/a Koo & Associates, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to extend contract
Good(s) or Service(s): Professional Design Services
Original Contract Period: 4/22/2014 - 4/21/2015, with one (1), one (1) year renewal option
Proposed Contract Period Extension: 4/22/2016 - 4/21/2017
Total Current Contract Amount Authority: $83,095.57
Original Approval (Board or Procurement): 4/22/2014, $83,095.57
Previous Board Increase(s) or Extension(s): N/A
Previous Chief Procurement Officer Increase(s) or Extension(s): 8/31/2015, 4/22/2015 - 4/21/2016
This Increase Requested: N/A
Potential Fiscal Impact: No fiscal impact
Accounts: Capital Improvement Program 580
Contract Number(s): 1428-13300
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance via direct participation.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: Capital Planning and Policy requests authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to extend this contract due to a change in the project schedule. This project provides for two new children's advocacy rooms at the Rolling Meadows and Criminal Court Building courthouses. These rooms will provide a safe, nurturing environment free from the stressful, emotionally charged atmosphere of a courtroom for children whose parents are conducting court business. These rooms seek to ensure every child is recognized as an individual whose gender, abilities, personal privacy, choice of activities, and cultural, ethnic and religious background are treated with dignity and respect.
The Children's Advocacy Rooms provide free, on-site child care, staffed by experienced early child development professionals who are trained to respond compassionately to children whose experience with the court can involve highly charged & emotion...
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