Item Coversheet
City of Independence
AGENDA ITEM COVER SHEET
Reported
Agenda Title:

Purchase order 21000455, in the amount of $112,00.00 was issued to Clinical Reference Laboratory Inc. (CRL) for Covid-19 spit test kits for the City Managers Department.
Recommendations:

Staff is providing notification to the City Council of this purchase.
Background:

As part of the CARES Act distribution from the County, the City allocated $926,109.59 to conduct public COVID testing. The City pre-qualified three vendors to provide saliva-based testing kits and processing of the kits in batches of 1,000 at a time. The City plans to conduct 1,000 tests per week for Citizen use approximately 8 weeks to complete the use of the funds before the end of the year.

Clinical Reference Laboratory Inc. (CRL), a Kansas City area laboratory service provider, was the first firm to become pre-qualified. The date for this service to be completed is December 31, 2020. CRL has experience providing this service and was the first firm ready to implement the service.

 

Purchase order 21000455 was issued to CRL to ensure the Covid kits would be available for implementation.


Fiscal Impact:

Fiscal Impact The fiscal impact to the City is $112,000. Funding is provided by CARES Grant Funding. The account number was 6560-5309-TEST.
Department:          City ManagerContact Person:          Christina Heinen

REVIEWERS:
DepartmentAction
Purchasing Division (Finance Department)Approved
City Clerk DepartmentApproved
Council Action:          Council Action:         
ATTACHMENTS:
DescriptionType
CRL Covid Testing Kits Professional Services ContractContract
Covid 19 WebOasis Results to Individuals ExhibitExhibit