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Committee approves fire-department refurbishing contract and opioid-response peer-support contracts; municipal-court software extension placed on file
Summary
Finance committee approved a roughly $948,000 sole-source contract to refurbish a nearly 20-year-old fire department emergency boat, awarded two contracts funded from opioid-settlement funds to provide peer support for the Milwaukee Overdose Response Initiative, and placed a sole-source software maintenance item for municipal court on file.
The Finance and Personnel Committee on Wednesday approved several procurement items for the Milwaukee Fire Department and related public-health initiatives and placed a municipal-court software extension on file.
Rhonda Kelsey, city purchasing director, said the largest single item is a sole-source contract with Metal Craft Marine Incorporated for about $948,000 to refurbish a nearly 20-year-old fire department emergency response boat; the purchasing office told the committee Metal Craft is the only vendor able to perform that work.
The committee also approved two contracts supporting the Milwaukee Overdose Response Initiative (MORI). One three-year contract with Community Medical Services was described as roughly $432,000 (with options to extend) to support peer-support specialists for fire and health department response; presenters said that contract funds capacity and that the labor market for peers with lived experience remains tight. A second, shorter contract for roughly $100,000 with a provider identified in the meeting as “Wiss Hope” (as read in the file) will fund additional peer-support services; both contracts will be paid from opioid-settlement funds.
Separately, the committee placed on file a municipal-court software maintenance contract with Magic Software Enterprises Incorporated. Purchasing said the municipal court’s case-tracking (CAT) system is proprietary to Magic and the requested $11,000 addition brings the contract to about $55,000; purchasing noted replacing the system could be disruptive and did not commit to a new RFP at this time.
Committee members raised questions about the number of peer-support specialists and the market for that staff; department leaders said the $432,000 figure funds service capacity (presenters said four peer-support specialists were funded under the contract) and that a funding-source change explained the difference between the two MORI contracts. All items in the procurement file were approved or placed on file as appropriate in open session.
