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Recommendation to receive and file the Fourth Amendment to Contract No. 35972 with Choura Venue Services dba Grand Food Beverage, The Grand, Grand F&B, of Long Beach, CA, to increase the contract amount by $325,238, for a total contract amount of $854,367, made pursuant to Chapters 2.69 and 2.85 of the Long Beach Municipal Code (LBMC) and in response to the proclaimed emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On March 10, 2020, the City Council recognized that an emergency existed and unanimously passed a Resolution ratifying the City Manager’s Proclamation of a Local Emergency and the Public Health Officer’s Declaration of Local Health Emergency due the COVID-19 pandemic. Pursuant to LBMC Chapters 2.69 and 2.85, the City Manager has the authority to approve purchases up to $1,000,000 for goods or services related to a proclaimed emergency.
The scope and magnitude of the response was necessary to slow the spread of and combat COVID-19, including the Omicron variant, in Long Beach and was beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of the City of Long Beach (City).
On August 6, 2021, the City awarded Contract No. 35972 to Choura Venue Services as part of its adoption of Request for Proposal No. HE20-086 to provide meal preparation and delivery services to the City’s non-congregate shelter sites that were activated in response to COVID-19. On January 21, 2022, the City executed a Second Amendment to Contract No. 35972 and a Third Amendment on March 14, 2022 to provide food services to people sheltering in place at the Homeless Services Bureau’s (Bureau) Isolation and Quarantine site in response to the surge in COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant, as well as to provide food services to individuals sheltered at the Bureau’s Project Roomkey site. On July 8, 2022, the City executed the Fourth Amendment to add $325,238 in funds to the contract to continue to provide food services to individuals shelte...
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