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C. 53

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	March 13, 2018

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Payment to Metropolitan Van & Storage, Inc.

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 03/13/2018

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:	Jaspreet Benepal, 925-370-5101
cc:	Tasha Scott Marcy Wilhelm Margaret Harris

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: March 13, 2018
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Auditor-Controller, or designee, to pay an amount not to exceed $991.30 to Metropolitan Van & Storage Inc., for storing and delivering equipment, furniture, files, and products for Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC) and Contra Costa Health Centers during the month of September 2017.

FISCAL IMPACT:

100% funding is included in the Hospital Enterprise Fund I budget.

BACKGROUND:

Metropolitan Van & Storage, Inc. receives and stores equipment, furniture, files, and products that the CCRMC and Health Centers don’t have room to store. The vendor then delivers and installs the items which had been stored. Owing to the expansion of the clinics and the new equipment purchased in response to various surveys, more money is required to pay the vendor for the final invoices of the term.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

Metropolitan Van & Storage, Inc., has continued to store and deliver equipment and products though it has not been possible to pay them. They are entitled to payment for the reasonable value of their services under the equitable relief theory of quantum meruit. This theory provides that where a person has been asked to provide goods without a valid contract and does so to the benefit of the recipient, the provider is entitled to recover the reasonable value of those products.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this payment is not approved, the Health Services Department will be unable to pay the final invoices and would not be able to use the vendor again, resulting in a need to store the items elsewhere.