To: Board of Supervisors
From: Ben Winkleblack, Animal Services Director
Report Title: Contract with Sage Veterinary Centers, dba Veterinary Services
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Animal Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Sage Veterinary Centers, dba Veterinary Services, with a payment limit of $500,000 for emergency veterinary services for the period of July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The contract will be paid through 100% County General Funds.
BACKGROUND:
The Department will contract with Sage Veterinary Centers, L.P., dba Veterinary Services, to provide emergency veterinary services for a contract term of July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. In November 2023, the County Purchasing Agent confirmed that emergency veterinary services warrant solicitation exemption and sole-source justification for services provided as physician services per the Administration Bulletin 600 (Section III, Procedures for Service Contracts, B, 4).
Sage Veterinary Centers, L.P., dba Veterinary Services provides 24-hour emergency veterinary support which is necessary for sick or injured, stray, abandoned, or neglected animals brought to the Contractor's clinics for appropriate care. The Contractor works closely with the Department Director and Chief of Shelter Medicine to facilitate approved care for sick and injured animals.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Failure to approve this contract will result in the loss of critically required and mandated medical services of 24-hour care and put sick and injured animals at risk.