RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent to execute, on behalf of the Health Services Department, an amendment to Purchase Order #F09780 with Watermark Medical, Inc., to increase the payment limit by $93,400 to a new payment limit of $525,400 for the rental of home sleep study monitors, related supplies and sleep study report scoring and results configuration for Contra Costa Health Services patients with no change in the original term of September 1, 2017 through August 31, 2019.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding is entirely included in the Hospital Enterprise Fund I budget.
BACKGROUND:
Watermark Medical, Inc. provides the equipment and supplies for home sleep studies including scoring and results report configuration. The testing provides sleep specialty physicians complete and accurate reports to make treatment decisions for patients with sleep related breathing disorders and result in preventing frequent readmissions related to untreated sleep disordered breathing and will also support the PRIME initiative by decreasing complications of cardiac, pulmonary and diabetic patients when successfully treated for their sleep related breathing disorders. Additional funds are required due to a 30% increase in sleep studies.
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