TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 36174 with Gordian Group, Inc., of Greenville, SC, to provide Job Order Contracting program and software support, to increase the contract amount by $400,000, for a revised contract amount not to exceed $1,400,000. (Citywide)
Levine Act: Yes
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to amend Contract No. 36174 with Gordian Group, Inc. (Gordian), for Job Order Contracting (JOC) program and software support. The JOC program is used to complete various improvements to City of Long Beach (City) assets such as City buildings, parks, and housing and homelessness capital projects overseen by the Public Works Department.
On November 9, 2021, the City Council awarded a contract to Gordian as part of its adoption of Resolution No. RES-21-0136 to provide JOC program and software support in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000, for a period of two years, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods. On January 24, 2023, the City Council declared Emergency Ordinance No. ORD-23-0003 amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Section 2.84.170, to temporarily suspend certain provisions of Chapter 2.84 during the proclaimed local emergency caused by homelessness. The increased JOC program use as a result of the local emergency caused by homelessness will result in increased expenditures for program and software support provided by Gordian.
According to City's 2023 Point in Time Count, the City has approximately 3,450 people experiencing homelessness. Homelessness has disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander Long Beach residents who are approximately three times more likely to experience homelessness than other populations. Black people comprise only 12 percent of the population of the City but, in the most recent homelessness count, completed in January 2023, accounted for approximately 30 percent of peopl...
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