RECOMMENDATION(S):

Approve and authorize the Purchasing Agent, on behalf of the Health Services Department, to execute an amendment to Purchase Order # F02598 with Metropolitan Van and Storage, Inc., to increase the payment limit by $40,000 to a new payment limit not to exceed $289,000 to store and deliver furniture, equipment, files, and products for the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC) and Contra Costa Health Centers with no change in the original term through September 30, 2017.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This purchase order is funded 100% Hospital Enterprise Fund I.

BACKGROUND:

Metropolitan Van and Storage, Inc. receives and stores equipment, furniture, files, and products that the CCRMC and the Contra Costa Health Centers does not have room to store. The vendor then delivers and installs the stored items. Due to the clinic's expansion and purchase of new equipment in response to various surveys, additional services from the vendor have been requested through the remainder of the term.