Contract Request Template (Contracts; IGAs; Leases)
Date Submitted: 5-15-2023
Requesting Agency: Denver Police Department
Division:
Subject Matter Expert Name: Hannah Sowell
Email Address: Hannah.Sowell@denvergov.org
Phone Number:
Item Title & Description:
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These appear on the Council meeting agenda. Initially, the requesting agency will enter a 2-3 sentence description. Upon bill filling, the City Attorney’s Office should enter the title above the description (the title should be in bold font).
Both the title and description must be entered between the red “title” and “body” below. Do not at any time delete the red “title” or “body” markers from this template.
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A resolution approving and providing for the execution of a proposed Grant Agreement between the City and County of Denver and the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice for the “Denver Police Department Fentanyl Investigation and Interdiction” program and the funding therefor.
Approves a grant agreement with the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice for $627,005 and through 6-30-2024 for a laboratory technician, laboratory equipment, software and training in support of the Denver Police Department Fentanyl Task Force, citywide (POLIC-202368032-00). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 6-20-2023. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 5-17-2023.
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Affected Council District(s) or citywide? Citywide
Contract Control Number: POLIC-202368032
Vendor/Contractor Name (including any “DBA”): Colorado Division of Criminal Justice
Type and Scope of services to be performed:
The Denver Police Department's Strategic Investigations Bureau has been working with local, state, and federal partners to address the epidemic of opioid addiction in the Denver Metro area for decades. The Denver Police Department recognizes that the sales, distribution, and addiction to fentanyl is overtaking the illicit narcotics market. To address this issue, the City and County of Denver is creating a fentanyl task force within the Denver Police Department. The Denver Police Department Fentanyl Task Force will investigate fentanyl sales, distribution, and possession of fentanyl in Denver. The Denver Police Department Fentanyl Task Force will also investigate overdose deaths with the goal of future prosecution of fentanyl dealers and distributors.
DPD investigations will be structured to specifically target the dealers and distributors of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. The task force will utilize advanced equipment and techniques including but not limited to GPS trackers, aircraft surveillance, covert "pole" cameras, confidential informants, undercover law enforcement operatives and other advanced investigative techniques. DPD will also use high technology forensic equipment to identify illicit narcotics to aid in prosecution.
The Denver Police Department's goal with this new task force is to identify, focus, and target efforts for prosecuting the drug traffickers that plague our neighborhoods. The Denver Police Department will utilize the most effective investigative and prosecutorial avenues to convict and incarcerate dangerous criminal offenders. The Denver Police Department would like to use funds to increase personnel and purchase needed operational equipment. The Denver Police Department is limited in resources for creating a new task force which is needed to increase these community impact investigations. The other focus of the Denver Police Fentanyl Task Force will be to investigate all fentanyl and other synthetic opioid overdose deaths.
For the Denver Police Department to make an impact on fentanyl overdose deaths throughout Denver, a direct response to the increased presence of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids is required. Grant funding will assist the Denver Police Department Fentanyl Task Force in obtaining appropriate equipment, technology, and resources that are crucial to both short-term and long-term fentanyl investigations.
The Colorado Division of Criminal Justice will provide grant funding to law enforcement agencies for the purpose of investigating deaths and serious injuries caused by illegal synthetic opiate poising and for disrupting synthetic opiate supplies. Funding, under grant number 2023-FD-23-8, will be used for a chemistry laboratory technician, equipment, software, and training/travel for the DPD Fentanyl task force.
Location (if applicable):
WBE/MBE/DBE goals that were applied, if applicable (construction, design, Airport concession contracts): N/A
Are WBE/MBE/DBE goals met (if applicable)?
Is the contract new/a renewal/extension or amendment?
New
Was this contractor selected by competitive process or sole source?
N/A grant
For New contracts
Term of initial contract:
6/30/2024
Options for Renewal:
How many renewals (i.e. up to 2 renewals)?
Term of any renewals (i.e. 1 year each):
Cost of initial contract term:
$627,005
Cost of any renewals:
Total contract value council is approving if all renewals exercised:
For Amendments/Renewals Extensions:
Is this a change to cost/pricing; length of term; terms unrelated to time or price (List all that apply)?
If length changing
What was the length of the term of the original contract?
What is the length of the extension/renewal?
What is the revised total term of the contract?
If cost changing
What was the original value of the entire contract prior to this proposed change?
What is the value of the proposed change?
What is the new/revised total value including change?
If terms changing
Describe the change and the reason for it (i.e. compliance with state law, different way of doing business etc.)