Title
Additional Expenditures for COVID-19 Testing (Ordinance S-46997)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to add additional pay authority to Embry Women's Health (Agreement 152811), Vincere Physicians Group, PLLC (Agreement 152825), and Rapid Reliable Testing, LLC (Agreement 152881), to provide COVID-19 testing. This item will have an aggregate amount of $750,000. Request further authorization for the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item.
Report
Summary
As part of ongoing efforts to provide blitz testing of residents for the COVID-19 virus, the City Manager’s Office and supporting departments provide testing events available to all residents; blitz testing events are free to the resident and no person is turned away from the service.
Blitz testing events are offered in every Phoenix City Council District. Special emphasis is used to provide testing in areas that are under-served by conventional medical services and areas where there is a relatively high concentration of positive test results.
Service providers coordinate all areas of the testing service from publicizing the events, coordinating with City staff for cross-promotion, to collecting samples, testing, and notifying residents of the results. The results from testing at these sites are generally available within 72 hours of the test.
Contract Term
The agreements started on or about Aug. 1, 2020 and will continue through Dec. 30, 2020.
Financial Impact
This item will have an aggregate spend of $750,000. Funding is available from the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. There is no impact to the General Fund.
Concurrence/Previous Council Action
Agreements were approved on Council date July 1, 2020.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. and Deputy City Manager Karen Peters, and the City Manager's Office and Public Works Department.