4901815 Resolution 20-475, “Option Period Three of Memorandum of Understanding with the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

20-475  

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

May 6, 2014

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve Option Period Three of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia to continue to provide critical pharmaceuticals for participants in the District’s HIV/AIDS Drug Assistance Program and other indigent care programs and to authorize payment for the services received and to be received under the Memorandum of Understanding.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Option Period Three of Memorandum of Understanding with the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) There exists an immediate need to approve Option Period Three of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia to continue to provide critical pharmaceuticals for participants in the District’s HIV/AIDS Drug Assistance Program and other indigent care programs and to authorize payment for the services received and to be received under the Memorandum of Understanding.

(b) On June 25, 2005, the District entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia to provide pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical supplies for a base period of April 1, 2005 through September 30, 2007.

(c) The first option period for the Memorandum of Understanding was from October 1, 2007 through March 31, 2010.

(d) The second option period for the Memorandum of Understanding was from April 1, 2010 through September 30, 2012.

(e) The third option period for the Memorandum of Understanding is from October 1, 2012 through March 31, 2015 for a total of $144,332,292.79.

(f) Council approval is necessary because the value of Option Period Three would increase the contract value to more than $1 million during a 12-month period.

(g) Approval is necessary to allow the continuation of these vital services.  Without this approval, Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia cannot be paid for services provided in excess of $1 million.

 

 Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Option Period Three of Memorandum of Understanding with the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.