| Date | Type | Memo |
|---|---|---|
| 06-14-2010 : | Contract has been extended for 90 days (through 9-14-10). Once supporting documentation has been received from NASPO, the state of Washington will be signing participating addendums to join the current NASPO Contract for AED's. | |
| 05-07-2010 : | DOC, WSDOT, AGR, DSHS, and AGR, as well as several counties are all in favor of participating in the NASPO contract in lieu of rebidding. Stakeholder input, as well as market research will be included in executive summary to be submitted to Cheral next week, with a recommendation to participate in the NASPO contract in lieu of rebidding. | |
| 04-09-2010 : | Will be sending out information to stakeholders regarding the option to join the current NASPO contract in lieu of rebidding. The NASPO contract offers the same vendors, in additional to one additional vendor, with comparable pricing. Survey will go out to stakeholders no later than April 16, 2010. | |
| 03-04-2010 : | NASPO contract services the following participating states: South Dakota, Florida, Iowa, Arkansas, Alaska and Wisconsin. Confirmed NASPO recorded Washington State's intent to participate when the contract was initially formed, leaving Washington State the option to participate in the future. | |
| 03-04-2010 : | Evaluating NASPO AED contract (SW60300) as a participating state vs. rebidding state contract for Washington. NASPO contract offers the same three contractors in addition to the Medtronics contractors. | |
| 02-23-2010 : | Updated CCI to replace Roz Knox with Melissa Cox as the Contracts Specialist. | |
| 01-05-2010 : | Contract contact for Philips Healthcare has been updated to remove Vincent Walker and add Trish Archambault. Trish will handle only contract terms or issues pertaining to the contract only. Katie Boucher will continue to manage accouts for police, municipal government including schools and universities. While Daren LeCrone will now manage accounts for Fire and EMS agencies. Please go to the ga webiste and review contact update under contract 01904, Philips Healthcare. | |
| 11-09-2009 : | Recall on Specific Philips HeartStart FR2+ AED Devices Philips Healthcare is conducting a voluntary recall of certain HeartStart FR2+ automated external defibrillators. These devices may contain a memory chip that can fail, rendering the defibrillator inoperable. Philips Healthcare was previously on a state contract managed by General Administration and it is possible that some public agencies might have one of the recalled defibrillators. The recalled models are M3860A and M3861A. There have been no reported incidents during emergency use of the recalled devices, and no injuries to users or patients. The problem has been detected during a periodic self-test or a battery insertion test. | |
| 08-14-2009 : | Notified from Cardiac Science Marketng Representative; Jennifer Murschel, of AED parts no longe available due to obsolencence, effective June 2009. AED Vivalink, p/n 9001 & 9004 and First Save p/n 9100 and 9110. Although these items are no longer listed as product lines under the State AED Contract with Cardiac Science, state agencies my have these older units on-site. Is so, it should be noted the agency may want to consider changing these units out to more current AED systems that offer available parts replenishment. | |
| 07-09-2009 : | The AED Contract is operating on it's final term. The rebid reivew will began in November 2009. | |
| 06-02-2009 : | Contract Amendment has been succeffully completed and approved by management. Fully executed documents sent to Philips Medical to complete this process. | |
| 05-21-2009 : | Contract Amendment processd for Philips Healthcare. Philips Healthcare is announcing as of May 18, 2009 orders for the HeartStart FR2+ (M3860A, M3861A, M3840A and M3841A) Automated External Defibrillator (AED) will no longer be accepted. After nine years on the market, the FR2+ is being discontinued. Philips will continue to honor the standard five- year warranty for all currently installed FR2+ AEDs, as well as the optional two-year extension available in the United States. Supplies, training accessories, and technical support for the FR2+ will continue to be available. | |
| 05-14-2009 : | The Automatic External Defibrillators, (AED) Contract extension process has been approved and successfully completed. Contract extension is effective as of June 15, 2009 through June 14, 2010. | |
| 05-07-2009 : | Received Cardiac Science's signed Contract Amendment today. Moving forward with the contract extension process. Contract Amendment given to Cheral Jones for review and approval. | |
| 05-06-2009 : | Contract Amendments are being processed to extend the AED Contract effective June 15, 2009 through June 14, 2010. All amendments have been completed with the exception of Cardiac Science. | |
| 04-07-2009 : | Moved forward with subitting the Contract Amendment documents to both Philips and Zoll. Cardiac Science has until Apirl 10 as their deadline to respond to the offer to extend the contract for an additional 12 months. Also waiting for quarter 1 usage for 2009 to confirm total usage for comparision to the 2008 extension period. Usage not due until April 15, 2009. | |
| 04-07-2009 : | Offer to Extend Letters returned for Philips and Zoll Medical. Both vendors have ageed to the offer to extend and Philips has offered the state a 7.6% discount on the defibrillator external unit, identified as #M506A-C01. | |
| 03-26-2009 : | Offer to Extend Letters for 2009 Final Contract Extension are now due back on April 10, 2009 for all three contractors, Philips, Cardiac Science and Zoll Medical. | |
| 03-23-2009 : | Offer to Extend letter sent to all three vendors: Philips Medical, Cardiac Science and Zoll Medical to extend the AED Contract for an addtional 12 months. Response due back by March 31, 2009. This will be the final renewal option available on this contract with a rebid scheduled for August/September 2009 time frame. | |
| 01-26-2009 : | In an effort to support the states initiative in reduced contract pricing; Cardiac Science has agreed to extend the price reduction which went into effect on June 15, 2008 to December 15, 2008, to be extended through June 14, 2009. | |
| 01-07-2009 : | Contract is embarking the Contract Extension period and contract will expire on 6/14/2009. Will send out broadcast to request Vendor Contract Report Cards for performance feedback. Report Cards due back by March 2, 2009. This will be the "final" contract extension remaining on the contract. | |
| 09-10-2008 : | Philips Medical is registered to attend the October Training and Trade Show scheduled next month at the Tacoma Convention Center. | |
| 08-06-2008 : | Philips has new product numbers for Heartstart FR2+ Defibrillator Pads. See Current Contract Information Update posted on July 31, 2008. | |
| 06-19-2008 : | The contract for AED's has been extended for the next 12 months for all three Contractors; Philips, Cardiac Science and Zoll Medical. Contract has been renewed effective June 15, 2008 through June 14, 2009. | |
| 06-05-2008 : | Confirmed all three Contractors; Philips, Cardiac Science and Zoll have accepted the offer to extend the Contract. Contract Amendments issued and are due back on June 11, 2008. | |
| 04-14-2008 : | Contract Extension Offer sent to all three AED contractors; Philips Medical, Cardiac Science and Zoll Medical. Letters due back on April 25, 2008. | |
| 02-05-2008 : | Confirmed site visit for Philips at their Seattle office on Monday, March 10, 2008. Will do a walk through of the Phllips facility; discuss contract overview an the AED product evaluation and physicians approval process. | |
| 01-22-2008 : | Scheduled site visit with Philips contact Katie Boucher and Amy Rosenleaf, for March 10, 2008. | |
| 11-07-2007 : | Cardiac Science notified the state of a change in their contracts administrator. Jeanne Thompson is no longer the point of contact. Effective immediately the new contracts administrator is Tina Baer-Olson. This notification was received via e-mail. | |
| 08-09-2007 : | Contract Amendment sucessfully processed to update Philips product listing on July 12, 2007. | |
| 06-06-2007 : | The State of Washington has successfully negotiated a contract extension for the Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) contract; with Philips Medical; Cardiac Science and Zoll Medical. This extends the current contract from June 15, 2007 through June 14, 2008. | |
| 05-14-2007 : | Philips will experience delays in returning their signed contract amendment to extend the contract for 12 months. Philips has to revisit the terms and conditions, but does not foresee any problem with the renewal. Advised Philips the terms and conditions were agreed upon at the time of contract inception. Thus far it has been Philips standard procedure to review all terms again for all contract amendments. Philips is trying to implement a change whereby they will not have to revisit review of the states previously agreed upon terms, conditions, specifications. Also advised Philips we need to get the contract amendment updated and in place for customer convenience before June 14, 2007 (contract expiration). | |
| 04-06-2007 : | Vendor Report Cards returned with outstanding and very good ratings. Renewal offer made to Philips; Cardiac Science and Zoll. Philips will need additional time to respond, due to a legal review. Zoll has accepted the renewal option, and Cardiac Science will respond by April 12, 2007. | |
| 03-12-2007 : | Request for extension letters sent to all contractors: Cardiac Science, Philips and Zoll Medical. Responses due back by April 9, 2007. | |
| 01-10-2007 : | Review of Contract 01904 for possible extension will start the first of February. Contractor Performance "Report Cards" will be issued to Customers and responses will be due in early March. It is anticipated that a final decision will be completed by the first part of April. | |
| 06-01-2006 : | Contract 01904 is in the final stages of being processed for a 12-month extension and will be inplace prior to the current expiration date. Additionally, lower pricing for various items will be available June 15th. | |
| 05-03-2006 : | Contract 01904 is being processed for a 12-month extension pending responses from contractors. It is anticipated that the new extension will be completed by the end of May, 2006. | |
| 04-10-2006 : | This contract will be extended pending responses from contractors due April 24th. It is anticipated that the extension will be completed by the first few weeks of May, 2006. | |
| 03-03-2006 : | The due date for the CPE's has been extended to March 24th due to an initial lack of responses. Additional CPEs have been issued directly to several customers for response. It is anticipated that a decision regarding the extension will be finalized by early April, 2006. | |
| 01-19-2006 : | Contractor Performance Evaluations (CPEs) are due February 23, 2006. Contract 01904 expires June 14, 2006 and is being reviewed for possible extension. Please address the CPE's, comments and concerns to Sheila Mott, smott@ga.wa.gov. Forms are available online. | |
| 12-05-2005 : | Contract 01904 is due to expire June 14, 2006. CPE's will be issued in early January for the review of this contract for possible extension. Usage has been fairly high and no complaints have been received. It is anticipated that a decision will be finalized in early April, 2006. | |
| 01-06-2005 : | Contract 01904 is for Automatic External Defibrillators, AED's and is available to all State Agencies, Higher Education, Political Subdivision and NonProfit Organizations. Three Contractors were awarded this contract in June, 2004: Philips Medical, Zoll Medical and Cardiac Science. | |
| 12-10-2004 : | Item added to Zolls portion of the contract. This item was added per Customer request. | |
| 09-02-2004 : | Contract 01904 for Defibrillators (AED's) is available on the internet. Distributors are not included on this contract. All ordering is direct to the selected Customer Service information shown for any of the three Contractors. | |
| 05-28-2004 : | New contract award is available on the internet. Contract 01904 replaces contract 08798. The new contractors are Philips Medical, Cardiac Science and Zoll Medical. | |
| 04-07-2004 : | Due date for IFB responses is April 13, 2004-2pm. | |
| 03-16-2004 : | This contract replaces contract 08798 on critical contract list. |
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