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County approves draft RFP for exclusive emergency ambulance service; providers and chiefs ask language tweaks on hospital offload
Summary
Supervisors approved a draft, state-bound RFP for a 10-year exclusive emergency ambulance contract with response and clinical performance measures; the draft includes a placeholder annual contract fee to be finalized with the FY25-26 budget and prompted provider comments about ambulance patient offload time language.
Contra Costa County staff presented a draft request-for-proposals Feb. 4 for an exclusive emergency ambulance-service contract designed to run up to 10 years. The RFP implements recommendations from a recent EMS-system evaluation, sets response-time and clinical-performance targets and proposes contract oversight measures.
The draft RFP underwent a four-week public comment period that produced 94 comments and roughly 62 revisions, staff said. To…
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