25-15 Authorizing Execution of RevGuard Contract.pdf

25-15 January 6, 2015 RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Township of West Orange (the “Township”), through the Township’s Fire Department, provides emergency ambulance transport services to residents and visitors of the Township; and WHEREAS, provision of the foregoing services entails substantial annual cost, the cost of which can be offset by charging medical insurance companies a user fee for ambulance transport services; and WHEREAS, the Township advertised a contract for third-party billing services (the “TPB Contract”) pursuant to the competitive contracting provisions of the New Jersey Local Public Contracts Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:11-4.1, et seq.; and WHEREAS, by adoption of Resolution 160-13 on August 20, 2013, the Township authorized the award of the TPB Contract to Revenue Guard, a New Jersey corporation with a principal business address of 50 U.S. Highway 9, Morganville, New Jersey, 07751 (“RevGuard”); and WHEREAS, RevGuard agreed to perform and has begun performing the foregoing services for the Township on the terms and conditions stated in the TPB Contract annexed hereto as Attachment “A,” in exchange for payment to RevGuard of commission rates as set forth therein; and WHEREAS, by operation the parties’ execution of the TPB Contract at this time, the TPB Contract shall have automatically renewed for a one-year term on October 1, 2014; NOW, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE TOWNSHIP COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE, that the Township shall and hereby does award the TPB Contract to RevGuard, to be executed in the form annexed hereto as Attachment “A”; and be it further

2 RESOLVED, that the Mayor be and is hereby authorized to execute all documents necessary to effectuate the TPB Contract, and the Municipal Clerk shall be and is hereby authorized to attest to the Mayor’s signature; and be it further RESOLVED, that this award shall be published and available in the Clerk’s Office for reasonable inspection in accordance with applicable law. Karen J. Carnevale Jerry Guarino Municipal Clerk Council President Adopted: January 6, 2015 4834-7685-0209, v. 1