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Read. Follow. Verify.Contract for Mental Health Billing Services: Kenneth Young Center
Record date · March 23, 2012
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What This Bill Does
The City of Chicago issued an to the Kenneth Young Center for specialized mental health billing software and consulting services. The contract is valued at $48,000.
This contract authorizes the expenditure of $48,000 in public funds to provide technical billing support for mental health services managed by the Department of Business & Information Services.
Who It Affects
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Kenneth Young Center
The organization is contracted to provide specific consulting and billing services in exchange for $48,000.
Dept of Business & Information Services
The department is responsible for managing the emergency purchase and the resulting billing software implementation.
Key Facts
- The contract is valued at $48,000.
- The vendor is the Kenneth Young Center.
- The contract is classified as an emergency purchase order.
- The services provided are custom information solutions for mental health billing.
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- The contract was approved on March 23, 2012.
- The overseeing department is the Department of Business & Information Services.
- The vendor is located at 1001 Rohlwing Rd, Elk Grove Village, IL.
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Emergency Procurement Usage
The use of an 'emergency purchase order' for software services suggests a time-sensitive need for billing infrastructure within the city's mental health services.
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