Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Professional Services Contract with Beacon Emergency Services Team, PA dba BEST EMS, a Physicians Management Group, to Provide Board-Certified Nurse Practitioner Services for McKinney Fire Department
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Safe and Secure Community
(6A: Maintain Meaningful Public Safety Performance Measures
6D: Continually increase operational efficiency in public safety departments)
MEETING DATE: March 2, 2021
DEPARTMENT: Fire Department
CONTACT: Danny Kistner, Fire Chief
Lisa Littrell, Procurement Services Manager
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
• Approval of the Resolution
ITEM SUMMARY:
• This Resolution authorizes the City Manager to execute a professional services contract with BEST EMS to provide a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner to assist the MFD in serving the needs of the community to include but not limited to:
o Participation in dispatch-triage, telemedicine, and low acuity calls
o Support of EMS response to low acuity calls
§ Including suturing and basic evaluation and treatment in the home and/or at the scene
o Homeless clinics to assess, diagnose, and treat chronic conditions
o Assist with Community Health Paramedicine care of patients
o Assist with vaccinations efforts
o Continual development of the Nurse Practitioner program
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
• The City issued a request for qualifications, 21-25RFQ to solicit responses from Physician’s Management Groups.
o Advertised in the McKinney Courier Gazette
o Posted on McKinney TV
o 130 matching eBid Supplier Notifications
o 13 Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) supplier notifications
• Of the 130 supplier notifications, four (4) submittals were received on January 14, 2021.
• A committee comprised of staff from the Fire Department and Human Resources reviewed and ranked the proposals based on the following criteria:
o 50 points: Physician’s Management Group and Nurse Practitioner Qualifications
o 20 points: Approach and Methodology
o 15 points: References
o 15 points: Interview
• BEST EMS was the highest ranked Respondent to provide these services.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY:
• The Resolution authorizes the City Manager to execute a professional services contract with BEST EMS to provide a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner in an amount not to exceed $159,472.
• Funding is available in account 001-3224-423-8516.
BOARD OR COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
• N/A