6092975 Resolution 21-503, Contract No. CFOPD-11-C-040 Extension Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-503

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

June 7, 2016        

 

                                                                                                                                             

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve Modification 12 of Contract No. CFOPD-11-C-040 with eFunds Corporation to continue to provide electronic benefits transfer services to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer on behalf of the Office of Finance and Treasury, and to authorize payment for the services received and to be received under the contract.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Contract No. CFOPD-11-C-040 Extension Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) There exists an immediate need to approve multiyear Modification 12 of Contract No. CFOPD-11-C-040 with eFunds Corporation to continue to provide electronic benefits transfer services to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer on behalf of the Office of Finance and Treasury and to authorize payment for the services received and to be received under the contract.

(b) On April 13, 2016, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer executed Modification 11 under Contract No. CFOPD-11-C-040, which partially exercised the multiyear option period from April 14, 2016, through July 13, 2016, in the amount of $250,000. 

(c) Proposed Modification 12 will exercise the remaining 21 months of the multiyear option period, from July 14, 2016, through April 13, 2018, in the amount of $1,754,817.19.

(d) Council approval is necessary because proposed Modification 12 exercises a multiyear option.  Council approval is further necessary to allow the continuation of these vital services and to allow eFunds Corporation to continue to perform under the contract.

 

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 Contract No. CFOPD-11-C-040 Extension Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.