County of Westchester

Board of Acquisition and Contract

Agenda

Thursday, June 30, 2022

11:30 AM County Executive Conference Room

Michaelian Office Building

Roll Call

Acquisition & Contract.

Minutes of the meeting 6/23/22 and the SEQR Review for agenda items.

R. Sculky

93844 County Executive / Board of Legislators - Enter into an agreement with

the Westchester Community Opportunity Program, Inc., to provide rental

and food assistance to veterans and their families residing in

Westchester County that are experiencing home and food insecurity, from

1/1/22 - 12/31/22, in the not to exceed amount of $60,030.

93719 County Executive - Enter into an agreement with the Westchester

County Local Development Corporation (“LDC”) for a one year period

commencing 1/1/22, whereby the County shall provide office space,

personnel and support services to the LDC and for which the LDC shall

pay the County an amount not to exceed $325,633, in accordance with

the approved budget set forth in Schedule “A”.

93728 County Executive - Enter into an agreement with the County of

Westchester Industrial Development Agency (“WIDA”) for a one year

period commencing 1/1/22, whereby the County shall provide office

space, personnel and support services to the WIDA and for which the

WIDA shall pay the County an amount not to exceed $952,847, in

accordance with the budget set forth in Schedule “A”.

93826 Human Resources - Enter into an agreement with Abigail Kirsch at

Tappan Hill, Inc., pursuant to which the Contractor shall provide catering

and event services for an employee awards breakfast to be hosted by the

County on October 14, 2022, for a not to exceed amount of $5,085.

94413 Information Technology - Amend License Agreement No. IT-742 with

SUEZ Water Westchester Inc., for the operation of radio equipment and

antennas on, and at the base of, the water tanks, located at Summit

Avenue in Port Chester, New York, to recognize the new corporate name

of the licensor, Veolia Water New York, Inc., and amend the license

agreement to permit the County to modify the radio equipment and

extend the term of the license agreement, under the listed terms and

conditions.

93541 County Attorney - Settle the lawsuit entitled, Cynthia Carrasquillo v. The

County of Westchester, et al, Index No. 59027/2018, by payment from

the County of Westchester to Cynthia Carrasquillo in an amount not to

exceed $40,000.

93756 County Attorney - Purchase an insurance policy from Starr Surplus

Lines Insurance Company, through the brokerage firm of Marsh USA,

Inc., for cyber liability insurance, from 7/11/22 - 7/11/23, for an amount of

$295,000.

94122 County Attorney / Risk Management - Purchase a builder’s risk and

flood insurance package from Underwriters at Lloyds Insurance Company

through the brokerage firm of Brown & Brown of New York, Inc., to insure

the renovations being performed by Worth Construction Company, Inc.,

at Playland Park related to the colonnade replacement and Plaza

Restaurant building renovation under Contract No. 20-530, for an amount

not to exceed $218,795.93, for the period beginning on 7/5/22 - 5/31/23.

94316 County Attorney - Enter into a second amendment to an agreement with

The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County and the Westchester

County Bar Association for the provision of, inter alia, administering the

County’s 18-B Assigned Counsel Plan, in order to extend the termination

date from 6/30/22 to 8/31/22, in an amount not to exceed $146,000,

payable in advance, in monthly installments not to exceed $73,000 with

the County having the option, in its sole discretion, to terminate the

agreement upon fourteen (14) days’ notice.

10. 94109 Planning - Enter into agreements with the U.S. Department of Housing

and Urban Development, to accept grants totaling approximately

$5,729,693 for the following grant programs and amounts: Community

Development Block Grant (CDBG) $4,164,264; HOME Investment

Partnership Program (HOME) $1,201,419; and Emergency Solutions

Grant (ESG) $364,010, for a total amount of $5,729,693.

11. 93829 Social Services - Amend the agreements with the seven (7) licensed

consultants listed in Schedule “A”, to provide psychological testing and

evaluations, psychiatric evaluations, sibling consults, fire setting

evaluations, safety assessments, court ordered psychotherapy, functional

capacity assessments to uninsured or under insured parents and children

as well as vulnerable adults, in order to revise the rates payable to the

Consultants to the rates set forth in Schedule “B-1”.

12. 94001 Social Services - 1) Enter into a grant agreement with the New York

State Office of Children and Family Services (“OCFS”) to accept grant

funds in the amount of $43,350 for the term 1/1/22 - 12/31/22, pursuant

to OCFS’ Safe Harbour: NY program; and 2) enter into agreements with

Children’s Village, Inc., Dr. Carol Chu-Peralta, The Mental Health

Association of Westchester, Inc., Ronald J. Barrett d/b/a Each One Teach

One Gang Prevention, and Teens Under Construction, Inc.

13. 94004 Social Services - Amend agreement with the Family Service Society of

Yonkers to operate and manage a representative payee program for up

to 300 people with disabilities being served by the Adult Protective

Services unit of the Department of Social Services or by the County’s

Department of Community Mental Health, for an amount not-to-exceed

$210,000, payable at a specified per-client-per-month rate, from 7/1/21 -

6/30/22 and therefore amend the agreement by, 1) extending its term by

one (1) year, to a new termination date of 6/30/23; 2) increasing the

amount by $279,972, to a new total not-to-exceed amount of $489,972, to

pay for the services during the first Option Term, and payable as

specified in the agreement for the first Option Term; and 3) reflecting the

fact that the County will have four (4) remaining one (1) year options.

14. 93754 Senior Programs and Services - Enter into an agreement with The

Wartburg Home of the Evangelical Lutheran Church for the purpose of

providing social adult day services to persons 60 years or older, residing

in Westchester County, who are isolated because of physical and/or

cognitive limitations, in accordance with the Expanded In-Home Services

for the Elderly Program, from 4/1/22 - 3/31/23, in an aggregate amount

not to exceed $240,000, comprised of $180,000 in State funds and

$60,000 in County Tax dollars.

15. 93783 Senior Programs and Services - Enter into agreements with the

agencies listed in Schedule “A” to provide homemaker and housekeeper

services with the option to provide consumer directed in-home services to

frail, homebound elderly Westchester County residents under the

Expanded In-Home Services for the Elderly Program, from 4/1/22 -

3/31/23, for an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,777,225, comprised

of $1,332,917 in State funds and $444,308 in County tax dollars.

16. 94146 Senior Programs and Services - Enter into an agreement with J & R

Tours, Ltd. to provide group transportation services including ground staff

dispatchers to County seniors, commencing retroactive to 6/23/22 -

3/31/23, in an amount not-to-exceed $50,000, payable with Unmet Need

State grant funds based upon the agreed-upon hourly rates.

17. 94253 Community Mental Health - Enter into a grant agreement with the

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, pursuant

to which the County will accept from HUD a grant in the amount of

$400,000 for services regarding the County’s Continuum of Care, from

6/1/22 - 5/31/23.

18. 93781 Health - Award three (3) contracts for transportation of pre-school

children with special needs to TLC Transportation Corp., in the not to

exceed amount of $218,186 / MAT Bus Corp., in the not to exceed

amount of $707,805 / and TLC Transportation Corp., in the not to exceed

amount of $1,296,338, from 9/1/22 - 8/31/27, for a total amount not to

exceed $11,798,648.

19. 93350 College - Contract No. WCC-20-647 with ThermoDynamics Corp., for

Facility Wide HVAC Maintenance, Westchester Community College,

Valhalla, New York. Approval of Change Order No. 1 in the amount of

$175,000.

20. 93822 College - Enter into affiliation agreements with NVA Yonkers

Management, LLC d/b/a Animal Specialty Center; Taconic Veterinary

Services, PLLC, and Schwarzman Animal Medical Center for supervised

laboratory/clinical education and instruction for matriculated College

Students in the Veterinary Technology Program, for a term commencing

9/1/22 and continuing in full force and effect unless terminated by either

party upon written notice.

21. 94012 College - Contract No.WCC-22-680 for Cybersecurity Laboratory

Renovation At Gateway Center, Westchester Community College,

Valhalla, New York. Advertise for bids.

22. 94181 College - Enter into an affiliation agreement with Sullivan Paramedicine,

Inc. d/b/a Mobilemedic for supervised laboratory/clinical education and

instruction for matriculated College Students in the Veterinary Technology

Program, from 7/1/22 and continuing in full force and effect unless

terminated by either party upon written notice.

23. 94092 Corrections - Enter into a grant agreement with the Dormitory Authority

of the State of New York (“DASNY”), under its State and Municipal

Facilities Program, in an amount of $117,209.95, for the purchase of

security equipment for the County’s Department of Correction, for a term

commencing upon execution by DASNY and continuing for a period of

three (3) years thereafter.

24. 93689 DPW/Transportation - Contract No. 19-507 with Papitto Construction

Co., Inc., for Restoration of Historic Buildings - Phase 2, Ward Pound

Ridge, Towns of Lewisboro and Pound Ridge, New York. Acceptance of

completed work and approval of Final Contract Amount of $2,755,800.

25. 93789 DPW/Transportation - Contract No. 21-514 with Sun-Dance Energy

Contractors Inc. d/b/a Markley Mechanical, for Boiler Replacement and

Associated Work, Vernon Plaza Family Center, 17 South Second

Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York. Approval of Northeast Construction

NY, Inc., Baldwin Place, NY, J. Bass & Sons, Inc., Mount Vernon, and

Link Metal Finishing Corp., Croton-on-Hudson, as subcontractors.

26. 94124 DPW/Transportation -Contract No. 16-529 with AWE Incorporated for

Main House Renovation, Lasdon Park, Arboretum and Veterans

Memorial, Somers, New York. Approval of W Designe Inc. (MBE),

Brewster, and Darante Construction, Ltd. (WBE), Elmsford, as

subcontractors.

27. 94125 DPW/Transportation - Contract No. 17-521 with LeChase Construction

Services, LLC, for New Equipment Storage Building, Richard A. Flynn, Sr.

Fire Training Center, Valhalla Campus, Valhalla, New York. Approval of

the nine (9) listed subcontractors.

28. 94167 DPW/Transportation - Contract No. 20-510 with Westchester Hills

Landscaping, Inc., for Rehabilitation of Farragut Avenue, C.R. #151, from

the Fenway to Broadway, a Total Distance of Approximately 0.74 Miles,

Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Approval of JP Hogan Coring

& Sawing, Corp. (WBE), Staten Island, and Safety Marking, Inc., Bethel,

CT, as subcontractors.

29. 94357 DPW/Transportation / County Executive/Office for the Disabled -

Amend Agreement No. DOTOP04-20 with ACT Now Limousine Services,

Inc., for the provision of paratransit car services, from 1/1/20 - 12/31/24,

for a total aggregate amount not to exceed $15,183,310, with the County

having the option to renew the term of the agreement for an additional

five year term, in order to (i) temporarily increase the per-trip rate by

$5.00, for the period retroactive to 6/1/22 - 9/5/22, which period may be

extended, or for any other periods during the term of the agreement, at

the County’s sole discretion, which $5.00 increase shall be in addition to

the then applicable per trip rates; (ii) reimburse ACT Now in the amount

of $5.00 for each trip collected; and (iii) authorize ACT Now to keep all

cash fares collected from eligible riders or their companions.

30. 94360 DPW/Transportation / County Executive/Office for the Disabled -

Amend Agreement No. DOTOP03-22 with White Plains Bus Company

Inc. d/b/a Suburban Paratransit Service, Inc., for the provision of

paratransit services with technology enhancements, from 1/1/22 -

12/31/26, in an amount not to exceed $70,155,000, with the County

having the sole option to extend the term of the agreement for one

additional five year period, in order to (i) temporarily increase the per trip

rate by $5.00 for the period retroactive to 6/1/22 - 9/5/22, which period

may be extended, or for any other periods during the term of the

agreement, at the County’s sole discretion, which $5.00 increase shall be

in addition to the then applicable per trip rates, (ii) reimburse WPBC in

the amount of $5.00 for each trip ticket collected, and (iii) authorize

WPBC to keep all cash fares collected from eligible riders or their

companions.

31. 94361 DPW/Transportation / County Executive/Office for the Disabled -

Amend Agreement No. DOTOP5-22 with ACT Now Limousine Services,

Inc., for the provision of paratransit car services in Peekskill and vicinities,

from 6/1/22 - 12/31/24, for a total aggregate amount not to exceed

$1,000,000, with the County having the option to renew the term of the

agreement for an additional five year term, in order to (i) temporarily

increase the per-trip rate by $5.00, for the period retroactive to 6/1/22 -

9/5/22, which period may be extended, or for any other periods during the

term of the agreement, at the County’s sole discretion, which $5.00

increase shall be in addition to the then applicable per trip rates, (ii)

reimburse ACT Now in the amount of $5.00 for each trip ticket collected

and (iii) authorize ACT Now to keep all cash fares collected from eligible

riders or their companions.