RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent to execute, on behalf of the Health Services Director, an amendment to Purchase Order #F03025 with Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc., to increase the payment limit by $108,000 to a new payment limit not to exceed $506,787 for the purchase of blood blank reagents and supplies for the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC) with no change in the original term of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2020.
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% funding is included in the Hospital Enterprise Fund I budget.
BACKGROUND:
Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc. has the reagents and ID-Micro typing system cards that can only be used on their proprietary centrifuges and incubators. These products identify blood types and crossmatch units of blood for transfusion and other surgical procedures. Upgrading to automation can cut down work by up to half the original time.
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