4531178 Resolution 20-257, “Contract No. GAGA-2011-C-0137 Base Year and Option Year One Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013”

A RESOLUTION

 

20-257 

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

July 10, 2013

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve the base year and Option Year One of Contract No. GAGA-2011-C-0137 with the Wireless Generation, Inc., to support the continuation of test development and delivery and administration of assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards, scoring and reporting services for paced interim assessments in English language arts (up to 5 each in grades 2 through 10) and mathematics (up to 5 each in grades 2 through 8), and to authorize payment for the services received and to be received under this contract.

 

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Contract No. GAGA-2011-C-0137 Base Year and Option Year One Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) There exists an immediate need to approve the base year and Option Year One of Contract GAGA-2011-C-0137for the support of test development, delivery, administration, and scoring and reporting of interim assessments in the District of Columbia Public Schools (“DCPS”) and to authorize payment for the services received and to be received under the contract.

(b)    DCPS exercised a partial option for option year one from July 26, 2012, through September 30, 2012 in the amount of $401,584.50, a partial option from October 1, 2012, through November 30, 2012, in the amount of $240,508, a partial option from December 1, 2012, through January 31, 2013, in the amount of $100,000, a partial option from February 1, 2013, through March 31, 2013, in the amount of $100,000, a partial option from April 1, 2013, through May 31, 2013, in the amount of $100,000, and partial option from June 1, 2013, through July 25, 2013, in the amount of $264,874.90 as a necessary government function and in the best interest of DCPS to avoid a disruption of services.

(c) Council approval is necessary to allow the support of test development, delivery, administration, and scoring and reporting of interim assessments to continue and to allow payment for option year one for services from July 26, 2012, through July 25, 2013 in the amount of $1,206,967.40.

 

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. GAGA-2011-C-0137 Base Year and Option Year One Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Act of 2013 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.