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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25 Budget Transfer Request to increase State revenue and appropriations of Fixed Assets for two mobile crisis care vans in the amount of $500,000, for the HHSA Behavioral Health Division (BHD) (4/5 vote required);
2) Add two mobile crisis care vans to the FY 2024-25 Fixed Asset list in the total amount of $500,0000;
3) Waive formal bid requirements in accordance with Purchasing Policy C-17 Section 3.4, Exemptions from Competitive Bidding, due to a competitively bid Purchase Order (PO) being utilized for the acquisition of two mobile crisis care vans being purchased for HHSA;
4) Authorize the use of Siskiyou County (Siskiyou) Request for Proposals BHS 24-02 and the competitively bid PO 2400256 between Siskiyou and Avan Mobility Inc (Avan) for the acquisition of two 2024 RAM 2500 Promaster Cargo Vans (contingent upon inventory at time of purchase) to serve as mobile crisis care vans in El Dorado County; and
5) Authorize the Purchasing Agent to issue a PO to Avan, for the amount of $387,789.97, as shown by the attached Quote labeled A - Proposal P113368, plus any applicable delivery, licensing, registration fees, and taxes, for the purchase of two Ford Transit All Wheel Drive Cargo Vans priced at $193,894.99 each.
FUNDING: 100% State Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Round 1 Grant Funding for Crisis Care Mobile Units.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
In early 2021, California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) developed the CCMU grant program to support and expand behavioral health mobile crisis and non-crisis services throughout the State. DHCS contracted with Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. (AHP) to be the Administrative Entity of the CCMU awarded grant agreements. On October 11, 2021, HHSA’s BHD applied to the CCMU grant.
In February 2022, AHP notified BHD that their application had been selected for an ...
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