To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Grant Colfax, Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract Amendment #23-274-18 with Echo Consulting Services of California, Inc.
Recommendation: Recommendation of the County Administrator
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RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract Amendment No. 6 to Agreement #23-274-12 with Echo Consulting Services of California, Inc., a corporation, effective July 1, 2026, to increase the payment limit by $290,367, from $5,326,000 to a new payment limit of $5,616,367, for maintenance and support of vendor’s behavioral health accounting and scheduling software with no change in the successive one (1) year periods until terminated.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this Contract Amendment will result in additional annual expenditures of up to $290,367 as budgeted by the department and funded 100% by Hospital Enterprise Fund I.
BACKGROUND:
This Contract meets the needs of the County’s Behavioral Health Department by providing a billing system. Since 1999, the Department has used the Echo Insyst System to process the Department’s Behavioral Health Divisions’ client registrations, service charges, billing, accounts receivable, and scheduling function. On December 6, 2016, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #23-274-12 in the amount of $1,900,000 with Echo Consulting Services of California, Inc., to replace the Insyst system with the Echo ShareCare System and to provide hardware, software, support, maintenance, and implementation services for Echo ShareCare System for the Behavioral Health Division’s billing system for the period from December 15, 2016, through June 30, 2019. Contract #23-274-12 is governed by the Master Information System Agreement (MISA) by and between Echo Consulting Services of California, Inc., d/b/a The Echo Group, and Contra Costa County. The MISA is effective beginning December 6, 2016, and will remain in effect until terminated. The ...
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