STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Government Performance and Financial Management
AGENDA DATE: December 8, 2021
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Office of Procurement Services
EXECUTIVE: Elizabeth Reich
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Authorize a three-year service price agreement, with two one-year renewal options, for citywide background screening services - Sterling InfoSystems, Inc., most advantageous proposer of twenty-three - Estimated amount of $2,568,168.25 - Financing: General Fund (subject to annual appropriations)
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BACKGROUND
This action does not encumber funds; the purpose of a service price agreement is to establish firm pricing for services, for a specific term, which are ordered on an as needed basis according to annual budgetary appropriations. The estimated amount is intended as guidance rather than a cap on spending under the agreement, so that actual need combined with the amount budgeted will determine the amount spent under this agreement.
This service price agreement provides background screening services for multiple City departments. The Department of Human Resources conducts pre-employment background screenings on all new hires, re-employment, job status changes, and volunteers seeking employment or volunteer work with the City. The purpose of conducting background screenings is to verify that applicants for employment and volunteer work do not have history of activity that would make them unsuitable for positions which they are being considered. Failure to perform pre-employment or volunteer candidate background check could place the organization at risk of future liability court cases. These checks are also important because they allow better informed and less subjective evaluations to be made about employee and volunteer candidates.
In addition, The City will provide an online web-based exclusion screening solution to the City of Dallas Compliance Program. The web-based software w...
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