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June 16, 2026 ·Mac, Room A ·1:10:59
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Thank you.
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 0:30
Members we're getting close to time for committee to start if you'll take your seats please. Members, I'm going to call the meeting to order. Thank you all for being here this afternoon. As you 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. And with that, Ms. Katie, I believe we have one supplemental agenda that we need to talk about yes ma'am
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Speaker 9 2:03
thank you madam chair katie walden 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 going to need a motion for us to accept that
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 2:22
supplemental agenda - Motion. - Motion, second. All in favor say aye. - Aye. - Okay, thank you. We'll be taking that supplemental agenda up in the proper order. I think it's in-state contracts that we'll be hearing that. And with that, Ms. Katie, we're gonna go into item number B.
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- Thank you, Madam Chair. Item B are the procurement rule revisions that are proposed from the Office of State Procurement.
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And the Office of State Procurement Director, Ms. Jessica Patterson, is here to present those to you all today.
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 2:56
If you'll please come down and introduce yourself for the record, you'll be recognized.
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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 Act 782. OSP, in developing these rule changes, worked with ACASO Consulting, who was hired by the Legislative Council to review procurement laws and rules and make recommended changes and to make sure that they were in line with each other. So the rule changes implement those recommendations that were made by ACASO. There were also changes generally made to update some outdated websites and to update some statutory numbering to reflect the Title 19 recodification. Some of the more substantive changes include clarifying the definition of sole source by law and maintenance, defining unrealistic and unreasonable bids, and update some protest requirements and some debarment procedures. I'm happy to take any questions. Members, do we have
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 4:13
any questions on the new procurement rules? Seeing none. Do I have a motion to accept? Motion. Second. Second. All in favor say aye. Opposed 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 of finance members item c in
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your packet are the methods of finance for this month on the first page you'll see a letter from the department of finance and administration presenting these eight projects for your review today and on page two of item c you'll find a schedule with a summary of these projects i'll highlight these for you now number one with asu jonesboro this is the university hall fan coils project this is increasing an existing mof for replacement of fan coils using university reserves number two is with arkansas tech this is called baz tech loop this is adding the baz tech 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 number three is northwest arkansas community college this is natural disaster repairs to campus buildings they're increasing this mof to 10 million dollars using insurance reimbursements and cash funds number four with u of a fayette bill this is one 60 million dollar method of finance that u of a 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. Number five, U of A Fayetteville property purchase. This is a $2.3 million MOF, and this is to allow the university to purchase property at 682 South Leroy Pond Avenue in Fayetteville. It includes a $15,000 warehouse and 1.06 acres, and it's going to be used to expand university surplus. On the next page, number six, with University of Arkansas Hope Texarkana. This is a $701,000 project using plant funds for the replacement of external doors with more standardized modern doors, as well as replacing broken windows. Number seven, UAMS 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 eight, U of A Phillips County Community College for miscellaneous repair replacement projects. This increases an existing MOF to $5.9 million using a variety of funds. And this includes similar to U of A small order jobs, including roofing, renovations, carpeting, HVAC, gym renovations, and projects on all three campuses.
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 7:15
These are the MOFs. Thank you. Members, are there any questions? Seeing none, have a motion. second all in favor say aye aye and opposed say nay all right with
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that we're going to move down to item number d item d are the discretionary grants presented for your review today item d1 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 fy 2027 there are 21 recipients And the award ranges from $55,000 to $115,000 for FY27. And this is to pay for expenses for community volunteers, recruitment, training, and advocacy for
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the best interest of abused and neglected children that are wards of the circuit court. Number two, we
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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 Health. 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 Cancer Plan implementation. Grant number three is to the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care. This is amendment six 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 evidence-based interventions and the use of the electronic health record in designated health systems. Number four,
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with the Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation, this amends an existing grant increasing by $100,000 for the prostate cancer program. Number five,
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Arkansas Children's Hospital amends an existing grant for the Infant and Child Death Review Program. Number six, to Engaging Arkansas Communities. This federal grant is increased by $755,000, and it is to continue the Engaging Arkansas Communities Program, and it's for medical transportation services for HIV patients. And then the last set of grants for Department of Health, which is number seven through number 24, These are all state-funded grants for $42,000 each, and these are all for services for the state's charitable health clinics.
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So each of these clinics provide services to a different area of the state. That takes us to item D, page 12. That's D-4, and it is
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the DHS grants for review today. Number one is with the Division
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of County Operations. It is a federal grant to the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund, and this is for scholarships from Poverty to Prosperity Program. Number two, with the Arkansas Disability Coalition, this is a state grant increased by $63,000 for the Family to Family Health Information Center. Number three, also with the Disability Coalition,
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This is increasing by $17,500 for the Arkansas Disability Coalition's Project Delivery of Chronic Care. Next, we have
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Grants 4 through 11. And these are all for the
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Area Agencies on Aging Grants. And 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 item D, page 15, and we'll have another grouping. Grant number 12 through grant number 16 are all federal grants with the Division of Aging, Adults, and
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Behavioral Health Services for the Partnership for Success program. And this is to support the development and delivery of state and community substance misuse prevention and mental health promotion services.
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Finally, on item D, page 17, you'll see the DHS grant with the contingent. This amends an existing grant, increasing
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it by $383,000, and this is to recruit and retain resource parents to support the foster care
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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. You'll see there is a cover letter from the program director, Scott Kaufman.
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And then on 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 these
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awards total $377,000 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 Budget Committee in April. These are from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff for the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Programs. These grants, there are nine recipients receiving approximately $75,000 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 Chair. Thank
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Speaker 33 13:03
you. sender rice you reckon maybe you are you're recognized thank you madam chair
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Senator Terry Rice Unverified 13:14
I don't have anything on these could I just see a hand of who's here for DHS division child and family services okay if I can catch you for you leave the buildings all thank you madam chair thank
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you any other questions members see none
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 13:34
you need a motion second all in favor say aye opposed say nay all right we're gonna be moving on now to items on e thank you
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Katie thank you madam chair item
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e or the contracts RFQs and ratifications for
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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 are six 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
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proposal method of procurement 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's Jessica Patterson's letter okay moving to item E1 I'll go over these together the RFQs and ratifications there are two requests for qualifications the first one E1 is with the Department of Shared Services this is for emergency property damage mitigation and they are requesting the ability to develop a qualified
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vendor 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
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a certain pricing structure. Number two is with disability determination for Social Security Administration, and this is for a medical consultant for disability case processing services. And these are the RFQs, Madam Chair. Any questions, members? Seeing no questions,
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 15:44
I have a motion. Second all in favor say aye. Okay with that. We're going to
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move on Thank you madam chair also today in item e1 we have the ratifications There are six for 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 Department of Commerce workforce connections In this letter you'll see that they state that they had a contract with a
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CT work keys curriculum, and it was to provide assessments and career readiness certification services for Arkansans. This contract expired on July 31st of 2025, but the terms of the
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new contract had not yet been decided until recently. And they state that although the new contract had not been finalized, WorkKeys continued to provide services to any Arkansans 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
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review, and they are seeking ratification of payment for all of the services provided during the gap period. You'll see they provided the rate
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structure for 25-26 as well as for the next fiscal year for 27. There is an outstanding amount of $29,326 owed to ACT.
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Ratification number two 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 January 2026. It resulted in major replacement work, including walls and flooring replacement. It totaled $55,000. 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 at $55,000. 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 Motorola Solutions for the ongoing upgrade, repair, and replacement of the Arkansas Wireless Information Network. This contract expired on November 25th of 2023 and was not renewed, The work is still ongoing with Motorola. They have made seven out of eight milestone payments, and 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 work
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with Motorola to finalize this project. The amount owed is $2.69 million. Next,
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with the Department of Veterans Affairs, they are seeking ratification for services valued at $93,000 for HVAC services provided by Northwest Controls. The vendor performed on-call HVAC repairs at the North Little Rock 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 on-call contract and for proper legislative review. This ratification is valued at $93,288. Also with Veterans Affairs, they're seeking ratification for services for $7,600 for services provided and paid in excess of the approved contract total of $65,000. They state that they had a contract for medical services with two magnets, and the
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provider's e-mails 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.
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So the ratification value for this is $7,600 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 Little Rock. They're seeking ratification of services provided by apartment painters of Little Rock. 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 is valued at $78,132. The contract was set in place but was not reviewed as required by law.
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 20:09
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, please. and if you'll please introduce yourself for the record
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Karen Perry CFO Department of
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Public Safety AJ Gary, Director of the
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Arkansas Division of Emergency Management Justin Vint,
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 20:59
Deputy 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 11-15 of 23 We're 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 two and a half years past due i mean that's some real non-management and so i guess my question is how did this happen and how did why did you not come to
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Speaker 53 22:02
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 up front and it's been held and storage all during this time the it was the payment the milestones the payments were broken up into milestones and there's eight milestones we did pay one through seven 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
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done until all the equipment's installed okay that doesn't
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 22:46
answer my question i appreciate the time frame that does not answer the question the question is this contract went out in 11 15 of 23 we're now on 6 16 of 26 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
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for your procedure about how it failed all right
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so i think the biggest the big picture is we this is paid out of bond money the bond payments do not go through asus 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 of them after the fact so i think just because it's not set up on aces for us to see those renewals and to see that i mean i think
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 23:47
that's our biggest our biggest problem is just because you have no procedure where you can monitor when you've got a contract we do now okay the contracts are in ASIS 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
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Speaker 53 24:09
were some 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 the system and then getting it through the approval process through aces it just took time to for all that to occur okay um i'm gonna
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 24:29
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 um 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 going to really ask that y'all develop 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 because it don't work. It comes before us all the time for ratification. 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
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storage? So is that equipment not obsolete? So no, and it's been a, this is 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 okay because she had
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 25:58
made the comment that we paid for the equipment up front and it's been sitting in a warehouse and the contract if i'm reading this right started in 11 16 to 2019 i just want to make sure we don't have obsolete equipment sitting out there that we've paid for yeah
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no I mean it's it's um it's dishes and pieces that go on the actual tower
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so it's all 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 okay all right and it's the I'm sorry it's the infrastructure of the AWIN system okay well I mean I appreciate y'all
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 26:37
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. Because this is a long time you've been doing this, and you've gone almost three years.
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Speaker 71 26:52
Yes, ma'am, and I agree. On this one, as Karen said, since it was through the bond, we were instructed not
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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 time before those are due. Okay. I appreciate that. You bet. Members, are there any other questions?
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 27:15
Seeing none, thank y'all. Thank you. Members, do I have a motion? Motion. Second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Congratulations. We're going to be moving on down to
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item number two. Thank you, Madam Chair. Item E2 are the construction contracts for your review. Number one is with the Division of Correction with Pettit and Pettit Consulting Engineers. This is professional engineering design services for camera installation for the Varner and Wrightsville and Hawkins units. Contracts number two through five are all with Department of Energy and Environment, Division of Environmental Quality. These are all for professional design services. That takes us to item E, page 28. Number six with the Department
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of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism with pollution management. This is for services for the Lake Chico Campground. Number seven, also with Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism, with Snow Engineering. This is for development of the MENA Trails Project at Queen Mill and MENA State Park, Phase 2.
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Number eight, Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism with TAR and A. This is services for the Petty Jean State Park Lodge and Mount Magazine State Park and Park Lodge improvements. Contracts number nine through number 12 are all with the Department of Military, And they're all for various vendors for on-call engineering and architectural design services for
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the Department of Military. Contract number 13, also Department of Military with Lewis, Elliott, McMorrin, and Vaden. This is a new original contract for design of a RMTC barracks.
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Number 14, Department of Military with TAR and A. This is for professional design services, also for military on-call. Number 15, DTSS, Building Authority with Pettit and Pettit Consulting. This is for on-call 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. As I said, these are all for SAU, and they are for projects for on-call civil, environmental, mechanical engineering, and architectural services, all for SAU. that takes us over to page 34 in item e and the next set of contracts are with the university of arkansas contracts 26 through 36 are all for various vendors with u of a to provide on-call 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 chair
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 30:02
thank you katie any questions members seeing none have a motion second all in favor say aye approve nay all right congratulations we're going to be
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moving down to e3 thank you madam chair e3 are the intergovernmental contracts for review number one is with asu with uams this is amendment six to an existing contract for the prescription
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drug coverage program for the ASU system health plan. Number two, Arkansas Rehab Services with the Guy Fentner Education Service. This is amendment to an existing contract to provide two licensed career and technical education teachers. Number three, Department of Commerce
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with DWS with U of A Fayetteville. This is for career counseling information referral services. Number four, Department of Health with Little Rock Ambulance Authority. This is for transportation and coordination of resources related to the Arkansas trauma system. Number five, Department of Health with UAMS. This is for real-time access to imaging for the Arkansas trauma system patients that are being delivered to a higher level trauma system center. Number six, Department of Health
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with UAMS. This is amendment to an existing contract to continue to increase breast cancer screenings via mobile mammography during after hours, weekends, and worksite events. Number seven,
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department of health with uams amendment forward to an existing contract for an evidence-based health policy research program development and public issued advocacy statewide number eight department of health with uams for a physician consultant to the trauma section of department of health contracts number nine through actually it's just number nine department of health board of nursing with the department of health this is for nursing investigations upon request from the Board of Nursing. Number 10, DHS with UAMS. This
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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 Child Welfare. Number 12, DHS with U of A Little Rock. This is for training for to continue parenting education services. Number 13, DHS with U of A Little Rock. This is for education and training for the DCFS family services staff, foster parents, and students. Number 14, DHS with UAMS. This is for family treatment services of specified populations. Number 15, DHS DCFS with UAMS. This is for Family First Services
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and Prevention Act programs. Number 16, DHS with UAMS for the diagnosis and treatment developmental rehabilitation, nurse practitioners, and infection control for human development centers statewide. It's amendment forward to an existing contract. Number 17, DHS, Division of Medical Services with Department of Health.
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This is funding for the patient center medical home model. Number 18, DHS with UAMS. This is for the antenatal and neonatal guidelines, education and learning system, and the stroke assistance through virtual emergency support programs. Number 19, DHS with UAMS for the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement to continue performing data analysis.
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Number 20, DHS with UAMS for financial reporting and analysis for Medicaid programs, waivers, and grants. Number 21, DHS DYS with the Archward 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 assessment treatment and
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casework for referred DYS juveniles. Number 24, the Division of State Police with UA Fayetteville, this is for the data entry, verification, and transmission of motor vehicle
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crash data to the state motor vehicle crash repository database. Number 25, Department of Veterans Affairs with UAMS. This is to pay for the medical director of the Fayetteville home. These are the intergovernmental contracts, Madam Chair. Members, do
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 34:16
we have any questions on the intergovernmental contracts? Seeing none, do I have a motion? Second. Second. All in favor, say aye.
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Aye. Thank you. With that, we're going to move down to item number four,
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out-of-state contracts. Thank you, Madam Chair. We are on item E, page 52. This is item E4, the out-of-state contracts. Number one, Arkansas Northeastern College with ABM Industries. This is a new contract for custodial services for their campuses. Number two, Public Defender Commission with Joseph Matthew
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Sanders. This is for Public Defender Attorney Fees contract. Number three is Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System,
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which I'll refer to as APERS, 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 agency's justification for needing to be a sole source contract. Number four, also with APERS, with Makeda Investment. This is for investment consulting for public markets. Also number five with Makeda, same thing, investment consulting. Number six with ASU and Andy Frane Services. This is for temporary staffing services for ASU. Contracts number seven through nine are
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all with ASU, and it's for three different firms for general legal services for the university. Contracts number 10 and 11 are both with ASU to two different vendors, and they are for
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construction rental equipment services for ASU. Contract number 12 is with Teacher Retirement System with Alliance Global Investors Capital. This is for fund management, Amendment 11 to an existing contract. Number
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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, and these are all for
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their investment management. And that takes us over to page 59 in item E. Number 17 is also with teacher retirement with Linea Solutions, and this is for it will support business process improvement through their future technology modernization plans. Number 18 through number 21 are four different vendors, also for teacher retirement, and they are also investment managers, and they include Loomis Sales & Company, Robert Baird, T. Rowe Price Associates, and Wellington Management Company. Number 22, that's on page 62
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of item E, we have
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Arkansas Tech University with CAP Financial Partners. This is for retirement plan consulting services number 23 also arkansas tech with copycraft printers this is for design and layout services for university publications number 24 with the economic development commission with retail strategies this is for retail recruitment consulting services number 25 division of workforce services with innovative policy policy lab this is for the ui certification hub number 26 with the state insurance department and company nurse llc this is for a workers compensation telephonic nurse triage. Number 27 with insurance department and computer aid. This is for enhancing data utilization in the insurance industry. Number 28 insurance department with times this LLC. This is for pharmacy benefits management services. Contract number 29 has been
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pulled at the request of the agency. Number 30 with department of
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education, ACT education 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, pre-ACT testing, work keys, and work keys curriculum for their K-12 populations. Number 31, Department
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of Education with Deloitte. This is a new, also special procurement contract. So the letters for that is in your packet. With Deloitte, they are going to establish and continue the first connections
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program. which includes maintaining operating and enhancing the child care applications for
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ADE number 32 Department of Ed with Education Hall this is a new vendor that will be providing the training for the master principal program number 33 ADE 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 program number 34 Department of Education
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school for the deaf and blind with community rehab associates this is for therapy services at the school 35 dfa revenue services with pneumo records
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llc this is for a turnkey thermal print on demand solution for producing vehicle registration forms and validation decals at each revenue office throughout the state number 36 department of health american board of family medicine this is for the care registry based approach for the centers of disease control objectives under their strategies Number 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 page 69. And number 38, Department of Health Stat Courier. This is courier services for the Department of
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Health lab. 39, DHS with Deloitte Consulting. This is to continue Amazon Web Services to host the Integrated Eligibility and Benefits Management Program.
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Number 40, with DHS and Deloitte, this is to add the summer EBT and
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SNAP fraud framework implementation grants to the ARIES eligibility system and management system. DHS with GuideHouse,
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this is a new contract for the completion of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services Reports. 42, DHS, Division of Aging, 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. Number 44, DCFS with Evident Change. This is Amendment 4 to an existing contract, and it is for continuing the quality services reviews of DCFS programs. 45, DHS, DCFS with the St. Francis Community Services. This is for intensive in-home services for DCFS clients in service areas. Forty-six, DCFS with Timothy Hill Children's Ranch. This is supervised independent living services for specified populations. Also, 47 is also with Timothy Hill Children's Ranch, but this one is for qualified residential treatment program services. Forty-eight, DCFS with youth villages. This is for in-home services and transitional support for young adults. Forty-nine is with Gainwell Technologies, and this is to provide maintenance and operation of the Arkansas Medicaid Enterprise and Medicaid Management System. Number 50 is DHS with Division of Medical Services, Milliman. This is for actuarial services for the Medicaid program. 51 is with Optum Government Solutions. This is for the Independent Assessment and Support Program. 52, DHS with Medical Services with QSource. This is for external quality
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review and to update the budget scope and performance indicators
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of this organization. Number 53, with SHI International Corp. This is to develop the statewide strategic maternal health plan. 54, Division of Provider Services and Quality Assurance with DHS with DNS, Diversified Technologies Group. This is for the Nursing Assistant Competency Evaluation Program. DHS with Handle Information Technologies, this amendment to an existing contract, And it is to deploy RightTrack where Division of Youth Services and its service providers around the state connect remotely into RightTrack over the Internet to provide service placement and billing data. Next, with DYS and Rite of Passage, this is to provide residential facilities for DYS clients.
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Fifty-seven is with the Division of State Police with Occupational Health Centers, and it is
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for law enforcement, pre-employment, and fit-for-duty physicals. Fifty-eight, State Crime Lab with National Medical Services. This is for lab services, including qualitative and quantitative information of major drugs, abuse, post-mortem blood, to ensure cases are completed in a timely manner in accordance with accreditation standards. 59, Division of Shared Administrative Services with Karasoft. This is to purchase implementation services for the Scenarion Workforce Management Time and Leave System. 60, DSAS with Deloitte, and they are wanting to use an existing state contract to add funds to the SuccessFactors Onboarding 2.0 implementation contract for ongoing system support following the go live of the new sap system number 61 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 systems with the sanborn map company and they are acquiring and delivering refreshed statewide aerial imagery number 63 building Authority with Dothan Security. This is security services for the BG Hendricks building in Fort Smith. 64, Department of Veterans Affairs
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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. Number 66, National Park College with Allied Universal Security, armed and un-uniformed security services around the National Park campus and facilities. 67, Northwest Arkansas Community College with Carisoft, and this is to implement their Lament 451 platform to support student recruitment, admissions, engagement, and retention.
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68, Southern Arkansas University with HES facilities, this is for custodial services. 69, U of A 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 System platform. U of A also with Deloitte, this is for consulting services to support the U of A system enterprise operations and onboarding of new campuses. 71, U of A with the HL Group, this is to provide a mobile inventory solution for asset tracking for all the campuses of the U of A system. 72, U of A with Mobile Mentor. This is to support strategic objectives of streamlining collaboration and improving information technology security protocols within the U of A Division of Agriculture as they are migrating from their current system to the University of Arkansas environment. 73, U of A with Sightlines, LLC. This is a sustainability benchmarking analysis project. Number 74, UA Fort Smith with OHO Corporation. This is digital marketing and lead generation services to attract students. 75, UA Little Rock with End Overdose. This is for the state opioid response grant. 76, UA Little Rock with Robert Half. This is for temporary staffing services. 77, UA Little Rock with Strata Collaborative. This is for student navigation services pursuant to specified requirements. 78, UA Little Rock with strategic marketing. This is for federal government relation services to the university 79 ua college at batesville with sc realty this is
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for janitorial services in their gateway center 80 uva community college at hope and texarkana with hes facilities management this is for total custodial staffing and services for university of arkansas at hope texarkana 81 is the university of arkansas for medical sciences
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with first source solutions 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 we have
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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 your question you're 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. You got somebody going to ask it for you? I don't know. Give me just a second. Okay. Members, while he's discussing that, has anybody else got a question? representative vaught are you gonna ask okay if i can get you
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Representative DeAnn Vaught Unverified 48:01
on there you go you're recognized can i have someone from maybe southern arkansas university to come
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 48:09
to the table is someone it's on number 68 ma'am number 68 s-a-u somebody here going once going twice so if there's
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no one here that can answer it out there can i ask staff to see if maybe they can answer sure okay so it looks like number 68 and number 80 have the same vendor sorry 80 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 percent plus sales tax we did not show on the contract for that period ending 6 30 20 26 can you explain they didn't have that issue on 80 but they have that issue on number 68 i think that is the question and the vendor doesn't show up on the transparency website do we know why
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i don't know about the transparent website representative vault
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 49:32
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 it's about a try it's not 100 accurate it's what i have found in the past um i don't know about the sales tax it looks like on this one particular contract they missed the sales tax of the 1.5 percent 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 to represent a rose and give him the answer by Friday if you don't mind will that work okay you're welcome any other questions Seeing none, do I have a motion? Motion, second. All in favor say aye. Opposed say nay. Okay. With that, we're going to move down to E5, which is in-state contracts.
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Thank you, Madam Chair. 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 the 31st, and it is for $650,000 for advertising and marketing services for
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the State Highway Safety Media Plan with the State Police Highway Safety Office. Okay, now on E5 of your packet, that begins on page 87 of
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item E, we have several, many tens of contracts
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with the Arkansas Public Defender Commission. So beginning with contract number one and going all the way to number 37, these are all individual attorneys that contract with the Public Defender Commission to provide legal services statewide.
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And so that takes us all the way over to page 104 in item E and contract number 38. Contract number 38 is with ASU and Friday Eldridge and Clark. This is for legal services for the Arkansas State University system. 39, ASU with Huggin Hall. This is for construction rental equipment. Next, you have contracts 40 through 43. these four contracts are all for general legal services for the asu system over to page 106 with asubb this is with abm and industry groups and it is janitorial services for the asubb campuses 45 is with teacher retirement with arkansas capital corporation and this is for consulting services 46 teacher retirement with gill elrod raggan own and sherman this is for legal services 47, Teacher Retirement with Stevens Investment Management Group for Fund Investment Management Services. 48, Arkansas Tech University with Stevens Insurance. This is for ongoing health insurance-related programs and benefits decision-making processes. 49, Arkansas Tech with the Roark Group. 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 of Ag. 52, Department of Agriculture with Zach Lainhart for precision land leveling. 53, Department of Commerce with Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods. And number 54 is with Department of Commerce with social innovation. Both are Amendment 2 to an existing contract for marketing and advertising. Number 55 with the Economic Development Commission. This is with Startup Junkie, and it is to continue the management of the Arise Arkansas program, which was formerly the Innovate Arkansas program. 56 Division of Workforce Services with Best Janitorial.
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It is for janitorial services in their building. 57 also with DWS with
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Quality Security Service for Security Guard services. Fifty-eight with DWS, sources for community independent living. This is for benefit planning services. Fifty-nine, Department of Corrections with Cards Holdings. This is for solid waste disposal services for their locations. Sixty, Department of Corrections with Summer Nash Patton. 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 Lemus E. Pratt with crop hauling for the Tucker Unit Farm. 62 is with Division of Correction and Tommy's Flying Service for Aerial Application Services for the Tucker Farm. 63, Department of Ed with School-Based Health Alliance of Arkansas. This is a new contract for school-based health mentorship and technical assistance in underserved communities
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across the state. 64, Department of Ed with Umbrella Security.
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It's for armed security services in their buildings. 65, School for the Deaf and Blind Executive Services, SPIN. This is for janitorial services. 66, School for the Deaf and Blind with Lyndall Green. This is for therapy services. 67, Educational Television Division with ABC Solutions for janitorial services. Contracts 68 and 69 are both with DFA Child Support Enforcement. Both of these are for process server services. Seventy with child support enforcement with ProTech Solution. This is for operations, maintenance, and support, and enhancement of ARCSIS.
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Seventy-one, DFA Management Services with the Arkansas Information Consortium, LLC. This is for services, maintenance, and development for DMZ hosting. Seventy-two, Management Services Division with P&P Industries. This is for state
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messenger services to Arkansas state agencies. Seventy-three, Revenue Services Division with Arkansas Information Consortium, and this is for the AIC INA Network Manager Services for R-STAR. Seventy-four, 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
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the Stroke Registry. Contracts 75 and 76 are both with the Department of Health. Both are with the Arkansas Rural 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
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of the lab's information management system. 78, Department of Health, Healthcare Pharmacy. This is for services, pharmacy medication services for the Y on White program. 79, Department of Health with Service 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 122 dhs with sasalina madison this is for marshallese language interpreting services. 84 DHS, Division of Aging Adults and Behavioral Health with ERISA Health. This is for comprehensive substance abuse treatment programs. Contracts number 85 through 101 are all with DHS, Division of Aging 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 e 102 is with dhs dcfs with erisa health
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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 or 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 placement agencies. 106 and 107 are both with DCFS for qualified residential treatment program services statewide. 108 is with Centers for Youth and Families. It's for therapeutic foster care. 109 is with CET of Arkansas, also therapeutic foster care. 110 is with comprehensive juvenile services. This is emergency shelter services, temporary shelter for DCFS clients. 111 is with consolidated youth services for qualified residential treatment programs. 112 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, licensed placement agencies, and therapeutic foster care. 116 is with Fort Smith Children's Emergency Shelter for supervised independent living programs for youth ages 18 to 21 who are 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 age 18 to 21 who are participating in extended foster care. 120 with Lone Oak County Task Force. This is for qualified residential treatment programs. 121, Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter for emergency shelter services for DCFS clients. 122, Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter for private license placements agencies. 123, Ouachita Children, Youth, and Family Qualified Residential Treatment, as well as 124 with Piney Ridge Treatment Center. 125, Recovery 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. 127, Stillwaters Consulting. This is for psychological evaluations for DCFS clients. 128, The Answer Foster Care, a private licensed placement agency. 129, Treatment Homes 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 Program. 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 Psych Consulting Services. This is psychology services at the Arkadelphia Human Development Center. 136 with J.D. Burgess. This is for a clinical pharmacist for the Conway Human Development Center. 137 is with PharmCare Consulting. This is a pharmacist in Arkadelphia. 138 is with Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care, and this is for the management, 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 pre-admission 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, also for a hearing officer. Contracts 142 through 149 are all with DHS Division of Youth Services, and these are all community-based 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 Student Training Program, Amendment 6 to an existing contract. Then we have contracts 151 and 152. Those are also for community-based reentry and vocational and career support services in the regions of the state. Contract 153 is Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism, Division of Heritage. this is for security services at their different museums 154 also with Department of Parks Heritage and Tourism with Arkansas Mailing Service 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 AWIN upgrade 156 State crime lab with pinpoint testing this is for on-site validation for the arkansas state crime labs forensic toxicology section includes qualitative analysis services contracts 157 through 162 are all with dtss building authority and they are all with antonio de shun more and they're for janitorial services that takes us to page 157 contract 163 with DTSS building authority with miracle window cleaning this is for window and glass washing services 164 building authority with sharp property management this is for janitorial services for the natural resources 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 for medical services to veterans residing at the State Veterans Home in North Little Rock. 167, Ozarka College with mid-arc roofing to repair and replace the roof on the administration building of the Melbourne campus 168 u of a with ues professional solutions with for on-call geotechnical services 169 u of a with waymaker innovations this is also on-call engineering support for their irrigation water management programs 170 ua little rock for janitorial services that takes us to page 160 ua little rock 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 same vendor apartment painters of litter rock 78 000 contract 173 is with ua litter rock north arkansas partnership for health education and this is funding for the federal block grant and office of substance abuse and mental health 174 with uapb with young blood 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
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 1:05:39
madam or in-state contracts madam chair thank you members don't have any questions seeing none have a motion second all in favor say aye opposed a name all right with that we're going to move down to reports and does anybody have any questions on the reports representative vault I just tore up
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Representative DeAnn Vaught Unverified 1:06:08
the machine you are recognized thank you madam chair I have a question on page 9 the vendor is farm brother flyers 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 extending it another year i'm kind of confused kind of
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Speaker 96 1:06:49
confused it's just no increase in the amount it's just an extension of time okay so we're not going to be adding more money to the 7.798 million dollars the amendment amount is zero okay and it
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just changes it to 728 of 27 Okay, thank you, ma'am. You're welcome.
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Yeah. Senator Bryant, you're recognized. Thank you,
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Senator Joshua Bryant Unverified 1:07:18
Madam Chair. I think I was looking at this in conjunction with the Tommies Flying Service, also aerial application at the Tucker Farm. I'm just curious if staff knows Tucker and Cummins co-reside. i'm just curious if what are those lumped together are these separate aerial applications i'm assuming that they're separate because they're two different companies
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 1:07:42
so they're two different contracts is anybody from the department of corrections anyone if you'll come down to the table and please introduce yourself for the record
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check around CFO Department of Corrections Dexter Payne director for Division
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Senator Joshua Bryant Unverified 1:08:17
of Corrections you recognize Senator Bryant thank you I think it was in in-state contracts on a local contract there at that's 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
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Speaker 118 1:08:39
multiple vendors no sir so so Tucker is about 80 miles from Cummins so that's why we use two different vendors those vendors are in two separate areas of the state
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okay so one one is 1.1 million a year and the other
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ones about 200,000 a year are the farms that much different in size yes sir Cummins is a lot larger than Tucker's farm and what do we do with all the produce that we treat most of it goes into our kitchens at the facilities but some is sold out commodities okay all right thank you yes sir
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tucker is tucker like 3 800 acres
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uh i think it's a little bit bigger than that it's close to that though
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yes sir yes sir close to what i said what's what's
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cummins uh cummins total is about farmable about 16 000 acres all right thank you
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yes sir any other questions members representative brian
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 1:09:55
are you rep are you done okay seeing known without objection these reports are going to be reviewed and with that we have got one other item it's a disclosure member disclosure that we need to approve all right katie thank you madam chair item
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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 jbb cypress and his company has leased a building to arkansas rehabilitation services so this disclosure is just submitting
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this for the committee's information and for your approval today Members any questions
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 1:10:34
Seeing none. I have a motion for approval Second all in favor say aye aye. Okay with that members. Thank y'all. We are adjourned. There's no other business
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Agenda

A. Call to Order - Comments from Chairs

1:35

B. Procurement Rules for Review, Department of Shared Administrative Services, Office of State Procurement (Jessica Patterson)

2:46

C. Methods of Finance

4:46

D. Discretionary Grants

7:35

E. Services Contracts for Legislative Review/RFQ Approvals

13:49

F. Reports and Communications

57:14

G. Other Business

H. Adjournment

1:10:47

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Senator Terry Rice Unverified
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Representative DeAnn Vaught Unverified
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Senator Joshua Bryant Unverified
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