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Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
0:42
Members were getting close to time for committee to start if you'll take your seats please.
Members I'm gonna call the meeting to order thank y'all
for being here this afternoon as y'all can tell, we'll have one quick housekeeping item our agenda is quite long and because of that we're only going to take questions from members of the committee if you're not on
the committee and you would like to have a question asked please get with a member so they can ask that question for you or you can always get with the agency off the record so and with that Miss Katty I
believe we have one supplemental agenda that
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we need to talk about yes ma'am. thank you madam Chair. Katiealden bureau of Legislative Research, fiscal division earlier this week the Department of Public Safety contacted us and asked to for this subcommittee to consider a contract and so staff has developed a supplemental agenda for your review today. Members, I'm gonna need a
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
2:27
motion for us to accept that supplemental agenda motion second all in favor say
aye OK, thank you. we'll be taking that supplemental agenda up in the proper order. I think it's instate contracts that we'll be hearing that and with that Miss Katty we're going to go into item number B. thank you madam
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Chair. Item B are the procurement rule revisions that are proposed from the office of state procurement and the office of state
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procurement director Miss Jessica Patterson is here to present those to you all today. if you'll please come down and
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introduce yourself for the record and you'll be recognized. Good afternoon Jessica Patterson, director of the office of state procurement the revisions to the procurement rules were made as a result of legislative changes during the 2025 general session including Act782 OsP in in developing these these rule changes worked with the cost of consulting who was hired by the legislative council to review
procurement laws and rules and make recommended changes and and to make sure that they were in line with each other so the rule changes implement those recommendations that were made by acasso there were also changes generally made to update some outdated websites and to update some statutory numbering to reflect the the Title 19 recodification. some of the more substantive changes include clarifying the definition of
sole source by law and maintenance, um, defining unrealistic and unreasonable bids and update and protest requirements and and some debarment procedures. I'm happy to take any questions. Members do we have any
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
4:18
questions on the new procurement rules? See none do
have a motion to accept motion 2nd 2 all in favor sayy aye
poll say nay congratulations the rules have
been passed thank you that's going to take us down to item number C which are going to be the methods
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of finance. Members adamsenior packet are the methods of finance for this month on the first page you'll see a letter from the department of finance anddministration presenting these eight projects for your review today and on page two of itemc you'll find a schedule with a summary of these projects. I'll highlight these
for you now.umber one with AU Jonesboro. this is the university hallancoils project. This is increasing in existing MOF for replacement of fan coils using university reserves. Number 2 is with Arkansas Tech this is called Baztechloop. This is adding thebaztech building to a loop a chilling loop of buildings and this is to alleviate the burden of obsolete cooling equipment and to be more efficient ber 3 is northwest Arkansas Community College. This is
natural disaster repairs to campus buildings they're increasing this MOF to10 million dollars using insurance reimbursements and cash funds. Number4 with U ofAfayetteville this is one60 million dollars method of finance that UFA is going to use to do small job order contracting this includes construction services, maintenance repair renovations, capital improvement projects as needed by job order for the next four years. they're using university reserves and gifts.
ber 5 U of afayetteville property purchase. this is a $2.3 million MOF and this is to allow the university to purchase property at682 South Leroy Pond avenue in Fayetteville. It includes a $15,000 warehouse and 1.6.06 acres and it's going to be used to expand university surplus on the next page number6 with University of Arkansas Hopeexarkana. This is a701,00 dollars project using plant funds for the replacement of
external doors with more standardized modern doors as well as replacing broken windows ber7uAMs endoscopy procedure room renovation. this increases an existing MOF to modernize this procedure room to accommodate advanced procedures. they're using all UAMs revenues. Number 8, U of a Phillips County Community College for Miscellaneous repair replacement projects. This increases in existing MOF to5.9 million dollars using a variety of funds
and this includes small similar to you of a small order jobs including roofing renovations, carpeting, Hvac gym renovations and projects on all three campuses. These are the MOFs. thank you members are there any questions
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
7:22
seeing none have a motion Second, all in favor sayy aye aye and
poll say nay all right with that we're going to move down to item numberd. Itemd
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you're the discretionary grants presented for your review today?
Itemd one is from the administrative office of the of the courts. These are the casa grants you'll see here the list of recipients and their award amounts for Fy2027. there are 21 recipients and the award ranges from55,000 to115,000 dollars for Fy27 and this is to pay for expenses for community volunteers recruitment training and advocacy
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for the best interest of abused and neglected children that are wards of the
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circuit court. ber 2, we have one grant from the insurance department. This amends an existing grant adding $20,000 for the fourth year. This is to future builders and it is to educate medicare beneficiaries for Medicare and Medicaid fraud prevention and awareness. Item number d3 are the discretionary grants from the department of healthalth there are a number of them here
the first two are grants to the Arkansas Cancer Coalition. They both amend existing grants one for federal and one for state funding and these are in support of the Arkansas cancercer plan implementation. Grant number3 is to the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care. this is amendment6 to an existing grant. It's half federal, half state and this is to improve breast and cervical cancer screening practices and the implementation of evidencebased interventions and the use of the electronic health record and designated health systems.
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ber 4 with the Arkansas prostate Cancer Foundation, this amends an existing grant increasing by $100,000 for the
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prostate cancer program.umber5 Arkansas Children's Hospital amends an existing grant for the infant and child deathviewgra. number6 to engaging Arkansas communities this federal grant is increased to by55,000 dollars and it is to continue the engaging Arkansas communities program and it's for medical transportation services for HIV patients.
and then grant the last set of grants for Department of Health which is number7 through number 24. these are all state funded grants for42,000 dollars each and these are all for services for the state's charitable health clinics. So each of these
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clinics provides state provide services to a different area of the state. That takes us to itemd page 1el.
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that'sd4 and it is the DhS grants for review today Number one
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is with the division of county operations. It is a federal grant to the Arkansas Single arent Scholarship Fund and this is for scholarships from for the from poverty to prosperity programme ber 2 with the Arkansas Disability coalition. this is a state grant increased by63,000 dollars for the family to family healthalformation Center.umber3, also with the disability coalition this is increasing by
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$17,500 for the Arkansas Disability coalition's project delivery of chronic care. Next
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we have grants4 through 11 and these are all for the area
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agencies on aging grants and they you'll see they use a variety of funding sources they have state, federal and other funding and these are all for programs and services that improve the quality of life for older Arkansans and adults with disabilities. that takes us over to itemd page 15.
and we'll have another grouping grant number 12 through grant number 16 are all federal grants with the division of agging Adults and Behavioral Health Services
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for the Partnership for Success programme and this is to support the development and delivery of state and community substance misuse prevention and mental health promotion services. Finally on
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itemd page 17 you'll see the DHS grant with the contingent. This amends an existing grant increasing it
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by383,000 dollars and this is to recruit and retain resource parents to support the foster
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care system in the state. Item D5 are grants from the Department of Arkansas Heritage and tourism parks heritage and tourism excuse me these are the historic preservation restoration grants and you'll see there is a cover letter from the program director Scott Kaufman and then on
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page 19 you'll see the list of historic preservation program projects. there are 11
award recipients for the year. It was a competitive grant writing process and
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these awards total377,000 dollars in aid using real estate transfer tax funds. The last grants for your review today are resubmitted. they were referred to this subcommittee by the joint budgetgetittee in April. these are from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff for the tobacco prevention and cessation programs. these grants there are 9 recipients receiving
approximately75,000 dollars each for Fy27. they're using master tobacco settlement funds for tobacco prevention and cessation programs across the state. these are the discretionary grants madam chairir. thank
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you senator rice you reckon maybe you are. recognizecog thank you madam chair I don't have anything
Senator Terry Rice
Unverified
13:19
on these could I just see a hand of
who's here for DHS division of child and familymilyervices ok if I can catch you before you leave the buildings all thank you madam
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chair. you Any other questions members? seeing none
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
13:39
needed a motion? Second all in favor say aye polls say nay all right we're going to be moving on now to items on E. thank you Katie
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the contractsrfQs and ratifications for your review this month. in the first section you'll see a letter from Miss Jessica Patterson. presenting the items that they're sending us for review this month she says there are6 ratification requests and she summarizes those here in her letter also as requested by the legislative council they have presented a list of all the projects submitted for your for review this month that were procured using the traditional or most advantageous proposal method of procurement
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on page three you'll see they provide an update on the training and certification programs that they've offered for procurement they have a list of all the agency participation of those and that goes through page five of the letter and finally they offer the rules report which you all have heard the rules and just voted to review them. so that'sjessica Patterson's letter ations OK moving to item E1, I'll go over these together. The RFQs and ratifications there are two
requests for qualifications. The 1st 1 E1 is with the Department of sharered Services This is for emergency property damage mitigation. and they are requesting the ability to develop a qualified vendor
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list that will allow them to give agencies the opportunity to use this vendor list in case of some kind of property damage emergency and they'll have a list to select from to choose qualified vendors within a certain pricing structure.
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ber 2 is with disability determination for socialcial Securitydministration and this is for a medical consultant for disability case processing services and these are the RFQs madam chairir. any questions members and no questions have a
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
15:49
motion secondcond all in favor say aye with that we're going to move on thank you
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madam chairir. Also today in item E1 we have the ratifications there are6 for
your your review today and so you'll see a series of letters from the agencies and divisions explaining the need for the ratifications. I'll go over them with you one by one. The first one in your agenda is with the the Department of Commerce Workforce Connections. In this letter you'll see that they state that they had a contract
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with ACT Workkeys curriculum and it was to provide assessments and career readiness certification services for Arkansans. This contract expired on July31st of 2025, but the terms of the new contract had
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not yet been decided until recently and although that they state that although the new contract had not been finalized, Workkeys continued to provide services to any any Arkansas so that there was no loss in service they now have finalized the terms of the new contract which they've included in your packet for your review and they're
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seeking ratification of payment for all of the services provided during the gap period. you'll see they provided the rate structure for 2526 as well as for the
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next fiscal year for 27. there's an outstanding amount of
$29,326 owed to ACT. Ratification number 2
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is with the Department of Health. they're seeking ratification of costs that occurred after a water leak in their office building after an ice storm of January2026. It resulted in major replacement work including walls and flooring replacement. it totaled55,000 dollars. The initial estimates were lower than the review threshold but
ultimately the final cost ended up being higher and needing legislative review. They went ahead and completed the work to avoid the risk of electrical hazards mold growth and to allow staff to return to office they now seek ratification of these services so that they can pay the vendor at55,000 dollars. Number three is with the Department of Public Safety this is for services valued at $2.69 million and this is for a contract with Motorilla Solutions for the ongoing upgrade repair and replacement of the Arkansas wireless Information Network.
This contract expired on November 25 of2023 and was not renewed and the work is still ongoing with Motorola. They have made7 out of 8 milestone payments in this $2.6 million payment will be the last payment as they said the work is ongoing so they request the ratification today to renew the contract to allow them to continue
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work with Motorola to finalize this project. The amount owed is $2.69 million. Next with the
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Department of Veterans affairs. they are seeking ratification for
services valued at $93,000 for Hvac services provided by Northwest Controls. The vendor performed oncall HVvac repairs at the North LittleRock Veterans home on an ongoing basis by submitting individual purchase orders. Initially they were performed at an amount that was below the need for review but ultimately the totals resulted in the need for an oncall contract and for proper legislative review this ratification is valued at $93,288. also with eterans affairs they're seeking ratification for services for7,600 dollars for
services provided and paid in excess of the approved contract total of65,000 dollars. They state that they had a contract for medical services with two magnets and the
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provider's emails invoices were being sent to a file that was not being checked regularly and as a result the invoices compounded and the amount ended up being owed was higher than the approved amount. so the ratification value
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for this is7,600 dollars for today
and also ADfa has stated in both of their letters that they have taken measures to mitigate this happening again with their employees. the final ratification is with Ua LittleRock. they're seeking ratification of services provided by apartment painters of LittleRock. This vendor was the winning bidder of an invitation for bid in May of 2025 to provide turnover painting services for the university village apartment complex. This valued at78,132 dollars. The contract was set in place but was not reviewed as required by law.
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
20:14
these are the ratifications, madam chair Members, are there any questions I actually do have one for the department of Public Safety if they could come to the table and if you would please introduce yourself for the record.
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Public Safety. AJary director of the Arkansas
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division of emergency Management. Justinent deputy
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
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director of communications and support. thank you for
being here. I guess I have some issues with this ratification. The biggest issue is that this contract ended in 23. 1115 of23 were now on July what 16th of 26
and you're coming you continue to do work on this contract without approval you went through and it appears that you'd actually discovered this on November of 25 and we're six months later and you're now coming to us after six months of discovering that you had a contract that was 2.5 years past due I mean that's some real
nonmanagement so I guess my question is how did this happen and how did why did you not come
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to us sooner? So this contract has been going on for several years with Motorola at the beginning of the project they delivered all the equipment and we paid all the equipment upfront and it's been held in storage um, all during this time it was the payment the milestones the payments were
broken up into milestones and there's 8 milestones we did pay 1 through7 during the time the contract was valid so it's just this last milestone that hasn't been paid and the work the only work that's left is just testing the system and verifying the system and that won't be done until
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all the equipment's installed. that doesn't answer my question. I
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
22:51
appreciate the time frame that does not answer the question. The question is this contract went out and 1115 or 23 we're
now on616 of26 why did y'all miss that this contract had expired had not been renewed and not come back before us asking for it to be renewed. That's what I'm asking. I'm asking for your procedure
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about how it failed all right so I think
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the biggest, the big picture is we this has paid out a bond money. The bond payments do not go through AIS like all the regular payments go through so it just wasn't on the radar because it's a different process
we when we have invoices for these vendors they go to our bond trustee and they make the payments and then we have to record all them after the fact so I think just because it's not set upon AS for us to see those renewals and to see that mean I think that's our biggest our biggest
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
23:52
problem is just because it's auto procedure where you can monitor when you've got a contract we we do now, OK? The contracts are anAI now
you found this one in November of 25 we're now in June of 26. How come it took six months to come before us ask for the ratification. There were some
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terms and conditions that we had to go back and forth with Motorola that we didn't agree with and so it just took some time and then getting it in in the system and then getting it through the approval process through AIS. it it just took time to for all that to occur. OK.
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
24:35
I'm gonna be honest, I don't feel warm and fuzzy about your procedure. I don't think you still have a good procedure and I think this will happen again
unless y'all develop it. people come to us all the time for ratifications that this happened and that happened. it's always a lack of procedure is what causes it. I mean so I'm gonna really ask that y'all develop a a procedure for this and that's not just y'all, all agencies. I preach this all the time. all agencies need to have a procedure outside whatever
system you're currently using cause it don't work. It comes before us all the time for ratification and and this is a large
one and then one thing that you said kind of made another question come in my head. We bought all the equipment back in what 2019? Is that what you're trying to say? And it's just been sitting in storage so is that equipment not obsolete?
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so no and it's it's been a this is a a huge project so there's
equipment coming in and going out so there has been delays in the overall project for different reasons so a lot of that that stuff is sitting in storage and as they get the sites ready to put the equipment on there then it's moved out of storage on to the towers so it's kind of equipment in fact we got equipment in a few weeks ago some additional equipment that went into another warehouse that because she had made the comment that
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
26:03
we paid for the equipment upfront and it's been sitting in a warehouse
and the contract, if I'm reading this right, started in 1116 to2019. I just want to make sure we don't have obsolete equipment sitting out there that we've paid for
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no I mean it's it's it's dishes and pieces that go on the actual tower so it's all
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part of that one upgrade which is a long term upgrade which is why we got the bond for it and why that that upgrade costs so much right and it's the the I'm sorry it's a it's a the
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
26:41
infrastructure of the ain system well I mean I appreciate y'all coming but I do want to urge you to develop a system to where we don't have this type of ratifications coming up again in the because this is a long time you've been doing
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this and you've gone almost three years yes ma'am and and and I agree and on this one the as asarren said
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it was since it was through the bond we were instructed not to put it in aces which now with everything going into aces there's an automatic reminder Karen correct me if I'm
wrong that's going to let us know ahead of
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
27:18
time before those are due I appreciate that members are there any other questions seeing none thank y'all members do have a motion motion second all in favor say aye polls say nay. congratulations we're going to be moving on down to item number 2. thank you madam
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Chair. Item E2 or the construction contracts for your review ber one is with the division of correction with ettit and
Pettit consulting Engineers. this is professional engineering design services for camera installation for the Varner and Wrightsville and Hawkins units t rac t s number 2 through5 are all with Department ofnergy and Environment division ofnvironaluality. these are all for professional design services that takes us to item E page28, number6 with Department of Parks, Heritage and
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tourism with pollution Man. This is for services for the Lake Chico campground
number7 also with Department of Parks heritage and tourism with snow engineering. This is for development of theina trails project at Queenillimina State Park phase two ber 8, Department
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of Parks, Heritage and tourism with tar and a this is services for the ettyjean State Parklodge and Mount magazine State Park and lodgearklodge improvements Contracts number 9 through 12 are all with the department of Military and they're all for various vendors for oncall engineering and architectural design services for the
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department of military. Contract number 13 also Department ofilitary with Louis Elliott McMorran and Vadden. This is a new original contract for design
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of a RMTC barracks ber 14 Department of Military with TA andA this is for professional design services also for military on callumber 15 DTSsBuilding Authority with Pettit and Pettit Consulting. This is for oncall engineering services.
Next you have a large set of contracts with southern Arkansas University This will begin on contract 16 and will extend through number 25. These are as I said these are all for SAU and they are for projects for onca civil environmental mechanical engineering and architectural services all for SaU. that takes us over to page34 in item E and the next set of contractor with the University of Arkansas.
Contracts 26 through36 are all for various vendors with UFA to provide oncall architect services engineering, civil engineering structural engineering, geotechnical engineering and other professional design services and that takes us to the end of the construction contracts madam chairir. thank you Katie. Any other questions members seeing none have a
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
30:11
motion Second, all in favor say aye
nay all right congratulations we're gonna
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be moving down to E3. thank you madam chairir. E3 are the intergovernmental contracts for review. Number one is with AU with UAMS. This is ammendment6 to an existing contract for
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the prescription drug coverage program for the Asuystem healthal plan.umber 2, Arkansas rehabervices with guyy Fenttner Education Service. This is amendment to an existing contract to provide two licensed career and technical education teachers ber3, Department of Commerce
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with DWs withu ofAfayetteville. This is for career counseling information referral services.umber4, Department of Health the LittleRock Ambulance Authority. This is for transportation and coordination of resources related to the Arkansas trauma system. ber 5 Department of Health with UAMs this is for realtime access to imaging for the Arkansas traumay patients that are being delivered to a higherle trauma system center number6 Department of
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Health with UAMS. This is amendment to an existing contract to continue
to increase breast cancer screenings via mobile mammography during after hours weekends and work site events. Number7, Department
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of Health with UAMS ammendment4 to an existing contract for an evidence-based health policy research program development and publicis issued advocacy statewide.umber 8 Department of Health with UAMs for a physician consultant to the trauma section of Department of Health.tracts number 9 through actually it's just 9 Department of Health board of nursing with the department of healthalth
this is for nursing investigations upon request from the board of nursing ber 10 DHS
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withuaMS. This is for clinical education services for the state hospital. Number 11 DHS with U of a Fayetteville. This is for the revision of performance indicators for the Arkansas Partnership for Public childld Welfare.umber 12dhS withua Littlerock. This is for training for to continue parenting education services.umber 13 DHS withua
litterock. This is for education and training for the DCfS Family Services staff foster parents and students.umber 14 DHS with UAMS. This is for family treatmentervices of specified populations Number 15 DhSdCfS withuaMS. This is for familyer firstt services and prevention
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Act programs number 16 DHS with UAMS for the diagnosis and treatment developmental rehabilitation, nurse practitioners and infection control for human
Developmentent statewide it's ammendment4 to an existing contract. Number 17 DHS Division of Medical Services with Department of Health.
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This is funding for the patienttienteredical homeme model number 18 DHS with UAMS. This is for the antenatal and neonatal guidelinesation and learning systems and the strokes assistance through virtual emergency support programs Number 19 DHS with UAMs for the Arkansas A Arkansas Center for Health Improvement to continue
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performing data analysis.umber 2 DhS with UAMS for financial reporting and analysis for Medicaid programs waivers and grants.umber 21 DHSDYs with the archford Education Services co op. This is for online education programs to youth in the DYS facilities. Number 22 with Jefferson County this is to continue to provide programming and coordination with the Jefferson County juvenile Justice Center.23 DYS with UAMS. This is the coordination of the outpatient sex offender
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assessment treatatment and casework for referred DYS juveniles. Number 24, the division of statelice withuafayetteville. This is for the data entry verification and transmission of motor vehicle crash data
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to the state motor vehicle crash repository database.umber 25, Department of Veterans affairs with UAMS. This is to pay for the medical director of the Fayetteville homeme These are the intergovernmental contracts madam Chair. Members do we have
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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any questions on the intergovernmental contracts
seeing none do I have a motion 2cond second all in favor sayy aye. thank you.
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with that we're going to move down to item number4 out of state contracts thank
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you madam chairir. We are on item E page52. This is item E4, the out of state contracts. Number one Arkansas Northeastern College with ABmndustries. this is a new contract for custodial services for their campuses.umber 2, public defender commission with Joseph Matthew Sanders. This is for public
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defender attorney fees contract.umber3 is Arkansasublic Employees retirement systemstem which all'll refer to as apers
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with majesco this is a new contract for their pension administration system software modernization, migration and subscription services you'll notice this is a sole source by justification contract and so staff has pulled the justification forms for you and we've put it in our yellow packet today it should be in the back of your packet so you can
see the agcency's justification for needing to be a sole source contract. ber 4 also with apers withiquitavestment. This is for investment consulting for public markets. Also number5 with Mikita, same thing investment consulting ber6 with AU and Andy Freinservices. This is for temporary staffing services for AUtracts number7 through 9 are all with
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AU and it's for three different firms for general
legal services for the university. Contracts number 10 and 11 are both with AU to two different vendors and they are for
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construction rental equipment services for AU. Contract number 12 is with teacher retirement systems with allianceloblobalvestors capitalpital. This is for fund management Amendment11 to an existing contract ber
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13 with teacher retirement this is an amendment to an existing contract for actuarial services for teacher retirement.
Next you have contracts number 14 through 16. This is for teacher retirement
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and these are all for their investment management. and that takes us over to page59 in item E. Number 17 is also with teacher retirement with Linna Solutions and this is for it will support business process improvement through their their future technology modernization plans Number 18 through 21 are four different vendors also for
teacher retirement and they are also investment managers and they include Luomisalles and CompanyRobert Baird, TRo Price associates and Wellington Management Company. ber 22 that's on page 62
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Tech University with Cap Financial Partners. This is for retirement plan consulting services.umber 23 also Arkansas Tech with copy craft printers. This is for design and layout services for
university publications.umber 24 with theconomic Development Commission with retail strategies this is for retail recruitment consulting services ber 25 division of workforce Services with innovative Polic lab. this is for the Ui certification hub Number 26 with the state insurance department and company nurse Lllc this is for a worker's compensation telephonic nurse triageumber 27 with the insurance department and computer aid. This is for enhancing data utilization in the insurance industry.
Number 28surance department with timey Lllc this is for pharmacy benefits management services
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Contract number 29 has been pulled at the request of the agency.
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Number30 with Department of Education ACTucation Corp. this is a new contract but it is a continuation of an expired contract for $10 million. This is for education to continue the ACT preacCT testing work keys and workkkey's curriculum for
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their K-12 populations. Number31 Department of Education with deloitte. This is a new also special procurement contract so the letters for that is in the in your packet with deloitte they're going to establish and
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continue the first connections programme which includes maintaining operating and enhancing the childcare applications
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for ADEumber32, Department of Ed withducation hall. This is a new vendor that will be providing the training for the master principal
program.umber3380E with the National Institute for Excellence. This is also a new contract and it is to provide for the training for the lead teacher pathway programme.umber34, Department of Education
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school for the deaf and blind with community rehab associates. This is for therapy service s at the school.35 DFfa revenueervices with pneumo Records Lllc This
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is for a turnkey thermal print ondemand solution for producing vehicle registration forms and validation decals at each revenue office throughout the state.
Number36 Department of Health American Board of Family medicine. this is for the care registrybased approach for theenters ofsease Controlb objectives under their strategies ber 37 Department of Health with Qsource. This is for ongoing assessments of the quality of care provided through the trauma system? that takes us to page69 and number38 Department of Healthat courier. This is courierervices for the department of Health lab. 39
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todHS with Deloitte consulting. this is to continue
amazon webservices to host the integrated eligibility and benefits
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management programme number40 with DHS and deloitte. This is to add the summer EBT
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and snap fraud framework implementation grants to the Aries eligibility system and management system. DHS with
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guidehouse. this is a new contract for the completion of the Centres of Medicare and medicaidervices reports.42 DHS Division of agging, Adults and Behavioral Health with 24/7 all
staff. This is for therapy services 43 with Medsphere Systems Corporation. this is for the electronic medical records and patient billing for the state hospital.umber44 DCfS with evident change. this is amendment4 to an existing contract and it is for continuing the quality services reviews of DCfS programs 45 DhSdcfS with the Saint Francis Community Services this is for intensive in home services for DCfS clients in
service areas.46dCfS with Timothy Hill Children's rannch. This is supervised independent living services for specified populations. Also47 is also with Timothy Hill Children'sRanch but this one is for qualified residential treatment program services. 48 DCfS with youth villages this is for in home services and transitional support for young adults.49 is with Gainwell Technologies and this is to provide maintenance and operation of the Arkansas Medicaid Enterprise and medicaid management system. Number50 is DHS with division of
medicalical Servicesilliman. This is for actuarial services for the medicaid programme. 51 is with Optum Government Solutions. this is for the independent assessment and supportgrame. 52 DHS with medical services with Qsource. This is for external quality review and to update
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the budget scope and performance indicators of this organization. Number53
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with SHI International Corp. this is to develop the statewide strategic maternal
health plan.54 division of providerservices and quality assurance with DHS with DNS diversified technologiesroup. This is for the nursing assistant competency evaluationgrame. DHS with handle information technologies. this amendment to an existing contract and it is to deploy Righttrack where division of youthervices and its service providers around the state connect remotely into the righttrack over the internet to provide service placement and billing data.
Next with DYS and ride of passage this is to provide resident residential facilities for DYS
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clients. 57 is with the division of statelice with occupational healthalth centers and it is for
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law enforcement preemployment and fit for duty physicals. 58 staterime lab with National Medical Services. this is for lab services including qualitative and quantitative information of major drugs abuse post motem postmortem blood to ensure cases
are completed in a timely manner in accordance with accreditation standards.59 division of shared administrativeervices with Carassoft. This is to purchase implementation services for the scenareion workforce Management time and leave system.60 d S A S with deloitte and they are wanting to use an existing state contract to add funds to the success factors on boarding 2.0 implementation contract for ongoing system support following the go live
of the new SAP system Number61 Department of Military net at work. This is for additional user licenses for their
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financial software.62 Department of Transformation and Shared Services geographic information systemstems with the Sanborn Map Company and they are acquiring and delivering refreshed statewide aerial imagery. Number63 building authority with doth incurity. This is security services for the BG Hendrix
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building in Fortsmith,64 Department of Veterans affairs with Alpha Medical Lab and this is for lab services.65 Department of Veterans affairs with two magnets llc you may recall this is from the ratification that we visited about earlier and this is to increase the total contract amount to provide for the services already rendered. Number66 National Park College with allied universal Security arm ed and uniformed security services around the nationalark campus and facilities.67 Northwest
Arkansas Community College with Karasoft. this is to implement their Lament451 platform to support student recruitment adminis admissions engagement and retention.68 Southern
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Arkansas University with HES facilities. this is for custodial services69u ofA with deloitte and this is to support their data conversion
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reporting analytics integration development and post implementation support for their workday student information systems platform. UFA also with Deloitte. this is for consulting
services to support theua systems enterprise operations and onboarding of new campuses. 71 UA with the Hl group. this is to provide a mobile inventory solution for asset tracking for all the campuses of theuFA system.72uA with mobile mentor. This is to support strategic objectives of streamlining collaboration and improving information technology security protocols within the UFAdivision of agriculture as they are migrating from their current system to the University of Arkansasvi.
73 UA with sightlines Lllc This is a sustainability benchmarking analysis project Number74 UA Fortsmith with OHO Corporation. this is digital marketing and lead generation services to attract students75ualitterock with end over end overdose this is for the state opioids response grants and se6ua littlettleRock withRobert half. This is for temporary staffing services77ualittlerock with strata collaborative. This is for student navigation services
pursuant to specified requirements 78 u a LittleRock was strategic marketing. This is for federal government relations services to the university.79 UA College at Batesville with SC Realty. This
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is for janitorial services and their gatewayent80 Uuve Community College at Hope inexarkana with HES facilities Management. This is for custos custodial staffing and services for University of Arkansas at Hopeexarkana 81 is University of Arkansas foredical Sciences with
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firstsourcelus and this is to support insurance follow up denials and complex claims for UAMS needs. these are the out of state contracts. thank you members
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
47:01
we have any questions Representative rose you might
not have been in here but we're only taking questions from members on committee if you can get somebody from the committee to ask her question and more than welcome to do so if not we'll have to get with the agency when they're done offline if you don't mind.
any you got somebody gonna ask it for you emb ers while he's discussing that is anybody else got a question?
Representative auugt are you gonna ok if I can get you on
Representative DeAnn Vaught
Unverified
48:06
there you go you're recognized. Can I have someone from maybe southern Arkansas University to come to
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
48:14
the table if someone it's on number 68 ma'am.umber68s au Somebody here going once going twice
Representative DeAnn Vaught
Unverified
48:32
so if there's no one here that can answer it out there, can I ask staff to see if maybe they can answer didn't make sense so it looks like number68 and number 80 have
the same vendor Sorry Yes it is the same vendor and
they don't have the same issue. it looks like it's a amendment to say increase to a contract amount by 1.5% plus sales tax we did not show on the contract for that period ending6:302026. can you explain they didn't have that issue on 80 but they have that issue on number68. I think that is the question and the vendor
doesn't show up on the transparency website. do we know why
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
49:35
I don't know about the transferring websitepresentativevault in the past we have found errors in the transparency website so that would probably have to be taken up with that agency. it's not 100% transparent I guess is what I try it's a not00% accurate it's what I found in the past. I don't know about the sales tax it looks like on this one particular contract they missed the sales tax of the1.5% but did not on the other but I'm just speaking by looking at the information I can't really tell since nobody from SAU is here
If somebody is listening from SAU please reach out topresentativeRose and give him the answer by Friday if you don't mind will that work OK, you're welcome. Any other questions? seeing none do have a motion motion second all in favor say
aye polls say nay. OK. with that we're going to move down to E5 which is instate contracts. thank you madam chairir.
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as we discussed previously, I'll do the supplemental agenda item first so if you'll go to that
supplemental agenda packet in the back part of your packet you see the agenda and then you'll see the letter stating the imminent need for this project review and then on page three you'll see the contract summary. this is a contract with the division of Arkansas State Police with Cranford Johnson Robinson and Woods. It is a new original contract. it should begin soon and should expire on August the31st and it is for650,000 dollars for advertising and marketing
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services for the state highway safety medialan. with the state police highway safety officef. OK now on E5 of your packet that begins on page 87
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contracts with the Arkansasublic defender Commission. so beginning with contract number one and going all the way to number37. These are all individual attorneys that contract with the public
defender commission to provide legal services statewide and
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so that takes us all the way over to page 104 in item E and contract number38. Contract number38 is with AU and Friday Eldridge and lark. This is for legal services for the Arkansas State University system 39 ASsu with hug and haul. This is for construction rental equipment Next you have contracts40
through43. these four contracts are all for general legal services for the Asu system. over to page 106 with AU beebe this is with ABMsndustry groups and it is a janitorial services for the AUBB campuses 45 is with teacher retirement with Arkansas Capital Corporation and this is for consulting services. 46 teacher retirement with Gill Elrod aggan Oen and Sherman. this is for legal services
47 teacher retirement with Stteens Investment Managementroup for fund investment management services.48 Arkansas Tech University with Stevens Insurance. This is where ongoing health insurancere related programs and benefits decision making processes.49 Arkansas Tech with the roearkroup. This is design and layout services for university publications,50 with Arkansas Tech with Youngblood and associates this is a new contract for integrated assessment and strategic frameworks
to strengthen the research development enterprise system.51 Department of agriculture with the communications group. This is for public relations with Department ofagg.52 Department of agriculture with Zack Lanehart for precision land levelling.53 Department of Commerce with Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods and number54s with Department of Commerce with social innovation both are ammendment2 to an existing contract for marketing and advertising. ber 55 with the Economic Development Commission this is
withartup junkie and it is to continue the management of the arri Arkansas program which was formerly the innovate Arkansas programme. 56 th
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division oforkforce Services with best janitorial is for janitorial services in their building.57 also with DWs with
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quality security service for security guard services.58 with DWS sources for community independent living this is for benefit planning services59 Department of Corrections with Cards holdings. This is for solid waste disposal services for their locations
60 Department of Corrections with summermmer Nash patent this is for nutritional training and advisement including implementing quality practices for food service providers in the department of Corrections properties.61 division of Correction with Lima E Pratt with crop hauling for the tucker unit farm.62 is with division of Correction and tommy's flyingervice for aerial application services for the Tucker farm.63 Department of Ed with school-based healthalth alliance of Arkansas. this is a new
contract for school-based mental health or school-based health mentorship and technical assistance in
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underserved communities across the state.64 department of edd with umbrella security it's for armed
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security services in their buildings.65 school for the deaf and blind executiveervices spin this is for janitorial services66 school for the deaf and blind withyndall Green. This is for therapy services.67ucational television division with AClutions for janitorial
services Contracts68 and69 are both with DFfa child support enforcement. both of these are for process server services 70 with child support enforcement with Protechlu this is for operations maintenance and support and enhancement of Arxis71 DFA Management Services with
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theformation consort Arkansas Information Consortium LLc this is for services maintenance and development for DMZ hoststing.
72 Management Services division with P& p Industries. This
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is for state messenger services to Arkansas state agencies.73 revenue Services division with Arkansas Information Consortium and this is for the AIC INA Network Managerervices for ourar. 74 Department of Health with the American Data Network and this is for extracting and inputting data from medical records into the get with the guidelines stroke patient management tool for the stroke registry.
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Contracts75 and76 are both with
the department of healthalth bothth are with the Arkansas waterterrural Water Association and these are both to support services in rural health rural water systems. 77 Department of Health with CQ Consulting. this is for the public health lab's ongoing operation and continuation of the
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lab's information management system.78 Department of Health Healthcare pharmacy this is for services pharmacy medication services for the Y on White programme. 79 Department of Health
withervice restoration. This is for services rendered in response to the water leak. This is one of the ratifications that I mentioned earlier Contracts number 80 through 82 are all for the board of nursing with three different individuals for investigations requested by the board of nursing on nurses that takes us to page 122dHS with sauceina madison. This is for Marshalee's language
interpretingervices 84 DhS Division of agging Adults and Behavioral Health with EIsa Health. This is for comprehensive substance abuse treatment programs Contracts number 85 through 101 are all with DhS division of agging, Adults and Behavioral Health Services and they are all for the community mental health centers across the state
that takes us over to page 130 of item E102 is with DHS DCfs with
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AIsa Health and this is for therapeutic foster care services.103 is with Arkansas
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Baptist Children's Homes and it is for specialized and private license placement agencies 104 with Rvac incorporated this is to continue outpatient residential substance abuse treatment services for DCfS clients. Contract 105 is with assemblies of God Family Services and it is
for specialized and private licensed placing agencies.106 and 107 are both with DCfs for qualified residential treatment program services statewide. 108 is with Centers for youth and familiesmilies. it's for therapeutic foster care 109 is with CET of Arkansas also therapeutic foster care 110 is with comprehensive juvenile servicevis. This is emergency shelter services temporary
shelter for DCFS clients.111 is with consolidated Youth Services for qualified residential treatment programs.12 is with Conway Community Service, Conway County Community Service for therapeutic foster care services.113,114 and 115 are all similarly grouped they're qualified residential treatment license placement agencies and therapeutic foster care. 116 is with Fortsmith Children's emergency shelter for supervised
independent living programs for youth ages 18 to21 who were participating in extended foster care 117 DhS with Harbor House of Fort Smith This is for substance abuse treatment services for DCfS clients.118 Hlh Consultants. This is for counseling services of DCfS clients 119 is with Immerse Arkansas. This is for also supervised independent living for youth aged 18 to21 who are participating in extended foster care.
120 with Loanoke County task forcece. This is for qualified residential treatment programs 121 Northwest Arkansas childrenldren's shelter for emergency shelter services for DCfS clients 122 Northwest Arkansas childrenldren's shelter for private license placements agencies 123 Washer tta childrenldren youth and Family qualified residential treatment as well as 124 with Piney Ridge Treatment Center,125recovery Centers of Arkansas for Substance abuse Treatment Centers 126 Southern
Christian Home this is foster care services and family homes for children who cannot be maintained in their own homes. 127tiwaters consulting this is for psychological evaluations for DCfS clients 128 the answers foster care a private license placement agency 129reatment homemes provides therapeutic foster care for DCfS clients 130 United Methodist Children's Home and this is substance abuse services.131 United Methodist Children's Home
with the qualified residential treatment programme same with 132 and 133 is for therapeutic foster care 134 is also youth home a qualified residential treatment program 135 is with now these are now with the division of developmental disabilities. The first one is Howard Site Consulting Services. This is psychology services at the Arkadelphia Human Development Center,136 with Jd Burgess. This is for a clinical pharmacist for the conway Human Development Center.
137 is with Farmcare consulting. this is a pharmacist in Arkadelphia.138 is with Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care and this is for the man, education and support of medicaid enrolled providers 139 is with the division of provider Services and quality assurance with Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care and this is preadmission screening and resident review services 140 is with Jewel H Harper. This is for a medicaid administrative hearing officer 141
is with Stanley M.jack bell for also for a hearing officer. Contracts 142 through 149 are all with DHS division of youth Services and these are all communitybased reentry and vocational career support services. so that takes us over to page 150 page 150 is DYS with smacky's barbecue and catering and this is for meal services for the civilian tro student training programme amendment6 to an existing contract.
then we have contracts 151 and 152 those are also for communitybased reentry and vocational and career support services and this regions of the state Contract 153 is Department of Parks Heritage and tourism division of herritage. this is for security services at their different museums 154 also with Department of Parks heritage and tourism with Arkansas mailingervice for mail services 155 division of emergency Management with Motorola Solutions. This
contract is the ratification and the amendment to the original agreement that was reviewed in November of 2019 and this is to complete the ain upgrade 156 State Crimelab with pinpointesting. this is for on site validation for the Arkansas Staterimelab's forensic toxicology section includes qualitative analysis services t rac t s 157 through 162 are
all with DTSs building authority and they're all with Antonio Deunnmore and they are for janitorial services that takes us to page 157 contract 163. with DTSsBuil Authority with iracle window cleaning. this is for window and glass washing services.164 building authority with sharp property Man. This is for janitorial services for the naturalours complex in the state crime
lab.165 Department of Veterans affairs with Northwest Controls this one you'll see is part of the ratifications that was listed earlier. This is for $210,000 for the HvaC repairs.166 Veterans affairs with Simmons geriatric medicine. This is her medical services to veterans re s id ing at the state eteran's home in North LittleRock.167 Ozarka College with mid-arc roofing to repair and replace the roof on the administration building of the Belbourne campus 168uva with UESfessional solutions with for
onca geotechnical services. 169u of a we with Waymaker innovations. This is also on call engineering support for their irrigation water management programs.170ua LittleRock for janitorial services that takes us to page 160 u a li t ter o ck is number 171 with apartment painters. This is also connected to the ratification that you heard about earlier for the same vendor apartment painters excuse me 171 is the new
contract 172 is the ratification contract. Sa vendor apartment painters of LittleRock78,000 dollars. Contract 173s withua LittleRock North Arkansasartnership for Health Education and this is funding for the federal block grant and office of Substance abuse and mental healthalth 174 with UAPB with Youngblood and associates. This is to deliver an integrated and independent evaluation framework that supports the goals of build UAPB. these are the out of state contracts madam or in state
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
1:05:44
contracts madam chairir. thank you.embers to have any questions seeing none have a motion second all in favor sayy aye pose say nay. all right with that we're going to move down to reports and if anybody have any
questions on the reports Represented a vault I just tore
up the machine you are recognized. thank you madam Chair. I have a question on page
Representative DeAnn Vaught
Unverified
1:06:15
nine the vendor is Farmbrother Fliers it looks like we're extending this for a year so are we going to pay $1.114 million for the next year for this aerial application. or is that
part of the original
total and we're just extangating it another year. I'm kind of confused. kind of confused
Speaker 96
1:06:54
it's just no increase in the amount it's just an extension of time OK so we're not gonna be adding more money to the7.798 million dollars. The amendment amount is zero and it just
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1:07:08
changes it to728 of27. OK. thank you ma'am. You're welcome. Yeah
Senator Joshua Bryant
Unverified
1:07:20
Senator Bryant you're recognized thank you madam chair. I think I was looking at this in conjunction with the tommy's flyingervice also aerial application at the tucker form I'm just curious if staff knows Tucker and Cummins co. coreid. I'm just curious if what are those lumped together or these separate aerial applications I'm assuming that they're
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
1:07:47
separate because they're two different companies so they're
two different contracts anybody from the department of corrections if you'll come down to the table and please introduce yourself
Speaker 116
1:08:15
for the record Chep Brown CFfo Department of Corrections. dexter Payne director for division oforrection. You
Senator Joshua Bryant
Unverified
1:08:20
recognize Senator Bryant thank you think it was in instate contracts on a local contract there at at Tucker was a seven year contract I can't find which which one it was but then we got this one over at Cummins. I'm just curious what the what's your typical process is over there for the is that a co located farm with multiple vendors?
Speaker 118
1:08:44
No sir so so Tucker is about 80 miles fromummmins so that's why we use two different
Senator Joshua Bryant
Unverified
1:08:52
vendors those vendors are in two separate areas of the state OK. so
Speaker 118
1:09:04
11 is 1.1 million a year and the other one's about 200,000 a year are the farms that much different in size? Yes sirummings is a lot larger than Tucker's farm and what do we do with all all the produce that we treat. most of it goes into our kitchens at the facilities but some is sold out for
commodities all right thank you yes sir. Tucker
Speaker 121
1:09:28
just tucker like3800 acres I think it's
Speaker 122
1:09:33
a little bit bigger than that it's close to that though yes sir yes
Speaker 123
1:09:39
sir close to what I see what's what'sumins cummins total was
Speaker 118
1:09:43
about farmerville about 16,000 acres thank you sir any other questions members
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
1:09:55
Representative Bryant are you a rep are you done? OK. you known without objection these reports are going to be
reviewed and with that we have got one other item it's a disclosure memberber disclosure that we need to approve. right Katty thank you
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1:10:17
madam chairir. Item G in your packet is one member disclosure that was sent on behalf of Representative Andrew Collins. He is a part investor
of the company known as JB Cyrus and his company has leased a building to Arkansas rehabilitationervices so this disclosure is just submitting
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this for the committee's information and for your approval today. Members any questions seeing
Representative Frances Cavenaugh
Unverified
1:10:39
that I have a motion for approval Second, all in favor say aye aye ok with that members thank y'all. we are adjourned there are no other business
Agenda
A. Call to Order - Comments from Chairs
B. Procurement Rules for Review, Department of Shared Administrative Services, Office of State Procurement (Jessica Patterson)
C. Methods of Finance
D. Discretionary Grants
E. Services Contracts for Legislative Review/RFQ Approvals
F. Reports and Communications
G. Other Business
H. Adjournment
Documents
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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Senator Terry Rice
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Representative DeAnn Vaught
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Senator Joshua Bryant
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