Special Notice / Hearing: None
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Colleen Chawla, Chief, San Mateo County Health
David McGrew, Interim Chief Information Officer, San Mateo County Health
Subject: Resolution Authorizing the Chief of San Mateo County Health or Their Designee to Execute Agreements with Eligible Vendors for Contingency Staffing Services
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the Chief of San Mateo County Health or their designee to execute agreements with the eligible vendors listed in Attachment A to provide Contingency Staffing Services for the period of June 28, 2025, through July 1, 2028 in an amount not to exceed $12,000,000, in aggregate.
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BACKGROUND:
The Health Information Technology division (HIT) of San Mateo County Health has embraced the agile staffing model by carefully using vendor-provided contingency staffing services.
Since the formation of the HIT division in 2013, the County's Information Service Department and HIT worked together to apply the agile staffing model. For at least the past 6 years, due to HIT's needs to provide specialized services to the County Health divisions, HIT created and maintained its own contingency staffing solution (the "Solution") with this Board's approval (see, for example, Resolution No. 078894). The Board's requested authorization for HIT's staffing Solution remains unchanged at $12,000,000 compared to its prior approval. The Solution resolves HIT's short-term staffing requirements for Project Management, Operations Analysts, and Data Analyst to support the divisions of County Health due to budget and time constraints on hiring full time equivalents when additional staff is needed to address an IT concern post-haste.
There are meaningful conditions within the Solution to ensure that labor rights are protected and conflicts of interest are avoided given that individual contracts could be awarded at the department level in...
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