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C. 48

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	September 20, 2022

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Purchase Order with Steris Corporation

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 09/20/2022

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

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

ABSENT:

Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor

Contact:

Gino Rogers, (925) 370-5343

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: September 20, 2022
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent or designee to execute, on behalf of the Health Services Director, a purchase order with Steris Corporation, in an amount not to exceed $800,000 for the purchase of Steris agents, filters, solutions, and other medical items as needed, for the Operating Room at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC), for the period of September 1, 2022, through August 31, 2025.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Approval of this purchase order will result in expenditures of up to $800,000 over the three-year period between September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 and will be funded 100% by the Hospital Enterprise Fund I revenues.

BACKGROUND:

Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC) has been utilizing Steris steam and vaporized hydrogen peroxide autoclaves for the past twenty-six (26) years to disinfect surgical instruments, trays, scopes, medical devices, implants, etc. utilized for Perioperative Services, Labor & Delivery, Gastroenterology Lab, and Interventional Radiology. The Board approved the capital replacement of four Steris autoclaves as they had reached their end of life, and parts were no longer available to service these autoclaves.

On July 12, 2016, the Board of Supervisors approved agenda item C.99 to execute purchase order #04974 with Steris Corporation in the amount of $268,485.44. to replace two wall unit steam sterilizers. On October 23, 2018, the Board approved item C.50 a clarification of Board action item C.83 on August 7, 2018 to execute purchase order# 13861 with Steris Corporation in the amount of $266,522 to replace two vaporized hydrogen peroxide sterilizers. All four sterilizers were purchased under Vizient Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) contracts.

In order to stay in compliance with Steris equipment warranties, it is recommended to continue purchasing proprietary Steris products for use with their autoclaves. Such products include Steris’s patented instrument cleaning chemistries for the removal of bio-burden, difficult to remove soils and protect surgical instruments from harm caused by repeated exposure to water, and hundreds of reprocessing cycles and Steris’s sterility assurance monitoring products to provide the validation in sterilization processes required by regulatory agencies such as The Joint Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, etc. designed to provide critical information about the sterilizer and the sterilization process.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this purchase order is not approved, CCRMC will not be able to operate their steam and vaporized hydrogen peroxide autoclaves. All surgical trays, surgical instruments, medical devices, scopes, implants etc. will need to be sent to an outside company offering sterilization services. Utilization of an outside service would create delays in the scheduling and performance of procedures without an additional investment to double or triple the current tray, instrument, medical device, scope inventory to address turnaround times for sterilization.