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Approve and authorize the Contracts/Purchasing Officer to sign Amendment No. 3 to the Agreement between the County of Monterey and Turner Consulting & Actuarial, LLC to increase the not-to-exceed amount by $68,000 through the term of the Agreement ending June 30, 2019.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors approve and authorize the Contracts/Purchasing Officer to sign Amendment No. 3 to the Agreement between the County of Monterey and Turner Consulting & Actuarial, LLC to increase the not-to-exceed amount by $68,000 through the term of the Agreement ending June 30, 2019.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The County has engaged Turner Consulting & Actuarial, LLC to provide professional consulting and actuarial services for well over a decade. In June 2015, the County entered a Standard Agreement not to exceed $100,000 for the period July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2017 (2 years) with an option to extend for two (2) additional one (1) year periods. The County has extended the agreement through June 30, 2019.
Currently the funding for the Professional Services Agreement are expected to exhaust shortly due to the increased scope of work requested for exploring options in Health Insurance administrators and carriers other than CalPERS as a coalition between SEIU and the Health Insurance Review Committee.
During the term of the agreement the County negotiated with SEIU and all other represented groups to form a Health Insurance Review Committee (HIRC) for the purpose of periodically exploring high quality and affordable health care options for its members.
The HIRC was resurrected and began meeting in August 2016. The County engaged Turner Consulting & Actuarial, LLC and utilizes his expertise to guide us through the process. The committee is to reconvene in June 2018, once the CalPERS premiums are published, and it will be determined at that time whether or not the committee will proceed with an RFP.
Approval of this recommendation will all...
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