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File #: 24-4092    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Consent Item Status: Passed
File created: 11/8/2024 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 12/3/2024 Final action: 12/3/2024
Title: APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Life Technologies Corporation, in an amount not to exceed $24,795 for maintenance and repair services for instruments at the public health laboratory for the period November 18, 2024 through November 17, 2025. (100% Public Health Laboratory funds)
To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract #72-121-3 with Life Technologies Corporation
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee


RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #72-121-3 with Life Technologies Corporation, a corporation, in an amount not to exceed $24,795, for maintenance and repair services for instruments at the Public Health laboratory, for the period November 18, 2024 through November 17, 2025.

FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this contract will result in expenditures of up to $24,795 and will be funded 100% by the Public Health Laboratory.

BACKGROUND:
The County has been contracting with Life Technologies Corporation since November 18, 2018 to provide service and repairs to instruments at the Public Health Laboratory. Contractor must perform annual maintenance, respond to and resolve troubleshooting and maintenance calls and provide service documentation to laboratory staff.

On January 15, 2019, the County Administrator approved and the Purchasing Services Manager executed Contract #72-121 with Life Technologies Corporation in an amount of $70,406 to provide maintenance and repair services for instruments at the Public Health Laboratory, for the period March 18, 2023 through November 17, 2021.

Approval of Contract #72-121-3 will allow the contractor to continue providing maintenance and repair services to instruments at the Public Health Laboratory. This Contract includes modifications to County's standard indemnification clause and limitations of liability such that neither party shall be liable for any incidental, indirect or consequential damages to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, regardless of whether such party was notified of the possibility thereof.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this contract is not approved, instruments at the Public Health Laborator...

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