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Request to enter into new agreement for the provision of program evaluation and technical assistance to provide public health services through the Healthy Babies Program at the Sedgwick County Division of Health between Sedgwick County and the Community Engagement Institute (CEI) at Wichita State University.
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Contract Approval Process Form - Please see Section V of Charter 68 for reference.
1. If the request is over a $10,000 spend, have these services been competitively bid (pursuant to Purchasing Charter Resolution 68)? No.
a. If not, has this purchase received a waiver of competitive bidding from the Purchasing Director? Please provide proof. Yes. We are requesting County Manager approval per Charter 68 Section 3.1(C).
2. Purpose of the Contract (please be specific) Program evaluation is a systematic process to improve and account for public health work. CEI regularly conducts program evaluations and provides technical assistance to local health departments throughout the state of Kansas and has several professional program evaluators who have the technical skillset to assist our program. Several CEI staff also have extensive knowledge of maternal and child health programs and also regularly coordinate and conduct work on the behalf of KDHE who also funds our program. CEI is composed of several Centers and two Centers in particular will be executing this work: The Center for Public Health Initiatives and the Center for Applied Research and Evaluation. The contract with CEI would allow a lead evaluator to assign staff to work on the following and determine which staff would be most appropriate to conduct the work.
CEI contractors will be providing an annual and a five year grant cycle program evaluation of the Healthy Babies program as required by the HRSA grant. This process requires external evaluators to collect and analyze client and program data to describe program processes, outputs, and outcomes. This work must be comple...
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