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Committee recommends AMN Leadership Solutions as CEO search firm, contingent on protest period
Summary
A Hospital Authority committee voted to recommend AMN Leadership Solutions for the hospital system's CEO search. The recommendation is contingent on a 10‑day procurement protest period; the full board is expected to consider the contract in November and, if approved, AMN would begin work at a December 10 kickoff meeting.
Unidentified Speaker 1 announced that Metro Procurement issued a tentative notice of award to AMN Leadership Solutions and the committee voted to recommend the contract to the full Board, subject to the completion of a 10‑day protest period.
The recommendation followed a formal RFP evaluation process with 10 respondents. Unidentified Speaker 1 described the scoring framework used in the notice of intent to award: 40 points for qualifications and experience, 30 points for methodology and approach, and 30 points for cost. "The winner of that process was AMN Leadership Solutions, which this committee is familiar with," Unidentified Speaker 1 said. The committee also reviewed AMN's full proposal materials, including the staff who would be assigned to the search and prior work samples.
Committee members discussed procedural details before the vote. Unidentified Speaker 4 noted the firm's proposed timetable: "they anticipate a 14 week process." Unidentified Speaker 1 explained cost scoring was formulaic (the lowest cost bid receives full cost points and other bids are scored by distance from that low bid) and answered a question from Unidentified Speaker 5 about contract exceptions—proposed deviations from RFP terms such as alternate schedules.
Unidentified Speaker 1 also described the procurement protest procedure: "Thereis a 10 day period for any bidder who is not the awardee to file that protest," which began when the award was announced; any timely protest would pause contract finalization. The committee scheduled a meeting with Metro Legal and Metro Procurement to meet with AMN a week after the protest period ends to finalize technical contract provisions that must conform to the bid.
Unidentified Speaker 5 moved to recommend approval and seconded the motion; the committee voted by voice and the motion carried (voice vote recorded as "aye" and no opposed remarks were recorded). Unidentified Speaker 1 said the committee would ask the Board to consider the contract at its November meeting; because the Board does not meet in December, the committee hopes to avoid delaying the contract until January. If the Board approves the contract, the committee expects AMN to join the December 10 meeting to begin the search process.
The committee also approved the previous meeting's minutes earlier in the session and heard no public comments.
Next steps: the recommendation will be forwarded to the full Board for a November vote; the contract will be finalized with Metro Legal and Metro Procurement after the 10‑day protest period, and a kickoff meeting with AMN is expected December 10 if there is no protest and the Board approves the award.
