RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent, on behalf of the Health Services Department, to execute a Purchase Order with Polymedco Cancer Diagnostic Products, LLC. to add $360,000 for a new total of $480,000, for reagents and supplies to perform immunochemical fecal occult blood testing for the Clinical Laboratory at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, with no change in the term from October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2019.
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% Funding is included in the Hospital Enterprise Fund I Budget.
BACKGROUND:
Polymedco’s OC-Auto Micro 80 Analyzer with FOBT-CHECKoc reagents is an automated immunochemical fecal occult blood testing system that detects human red cells only, with no interference from red meat, turnips, melons, aspirin, anti-inflammatory drugs and vitamin C. This improvement directs many more of the “right” patients to colonoscopy, leading to the earlier detection of polyps and colorectal cancer.
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