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PROPOSED CONTRACT AMENDMENT
Department(s): Office of the General Superintendent
Vendor: Silk Screen Express, Inc, Tinley Park, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Forest Preserves of Cook County (the "Forest Preserves") to extend and increase contract.
Good(s) or Service(s): Districtwide Apparel
Original Contract Period: 1/1/2018 - 12/31/2022; Administrative Extension 1/1/2023 - 5/31/2023
Proposed Contract Period Extension: 6/1/2023 - 12/31/2023
Total Current Contract Amount Authority: $137,500.00
Original Approval: 11/14/2017, $125,000.00
Previous Increase(s): Administrative increase 2/6/2023, $12,500.00
This Increase Requested: $25,000.00
Estimated Fiscal Impact: FY 2023, $25,000.00
Accounts: Professional Service 51001.520840, 51001.530267, 51001.521314, 51001.520635, 51001.520350, 51001.530130, 51001.530267, 51001.530271, 51001.530189, and 51001.520835
Contract Number(s): #74000004276 issued under Project #17-31-110R
Concurrences: The Chief Financial Officer has approved this item. Final contract amendment is subject to legal review and approval.
Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise goals are not applicable to the contract as the original contract value per year was equal to or less than $25,000.00.
District(s): Districtwide
Summary: The current apparel agreement with Silk Screen Express, Inc consists of the manufacture and distribution of a variety of Forest Preserves logoed silkscreened and embroidered apparel for use by staff and will be ending 5/31/2023. We respectfully request an increase of $25,000.00 and extension through 12/31/2023, to allow staff to prepare an RFP to solicit proposers that can provide these types of products which is projected to be posted on our website this spring or summer and awarded this fall or winter, for a multiyear contract. The benefit of logoed apparel is to have our staff, particularly those in public facing roles, identified easily by wearing Forest Preserves logo...
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