Jail Services

The City of Bell, California, is requesting proposals from qualified vendors to provide Jail Services The City of Bell invites your company to submit a proposal in accordance with this Request for Proposal (RFP). Your response to this request will be evaluated to determine the qualifications of your company. Proposals must adhere to the format and content of this RFP. Proposals will not be evaluated unless all parts requested are submitted in a complete package. The information set forth is the minimum required in order to qualify for consideration. The City desires to enter into an Agreement for three (3) years, with two (2) optional one-year extensions.

The Bell Police Department is seeking a company to provide the following services: Operation, and maintenance of the City of Bell Jail to properly receive, detain, and care for all inmates who may be booked. The Department processes approximately 900 arrests per year. These arrests are all pre-arraignment, and consist of males and females, adults, and juveniles.

BELL POLICE TYPE I JAIL FACILITY OPERATIONS

The custody officers’ responsibilities involve, but are not limited to, receiving, processing, detaining, monitoring, transporting and/or releasing adults and juveniles arrested or detained by officers of the Bell Police Department (and other agencies authorized to use the Bell Police Jail), and performing other related duties as outlined in the Bell Police Department Manual and the Bell Police Department Jail Manual. These specifications are for uniformed, unarmed, and commissioned or non-commissioned custody officers to be provided at the Bell Police Department’s Type I Jail Facility on a seven-day per week, twenty-four hour per day schedule.

STAFFING REQUIREMENTS

The staffing requirements for the City’s Jail Facility consist of staffing the required positions for the contract and within the Jail Facility, the establishment of a retention plan with a progressive salary scale for each position within the Jail, and quarterly or bi-monthly recruitment consisting of interviews and backgrounds. The positions required for the Statement of Work (SOW) are Account Manager, Supervisor, Shift Leads, and Custody Officers.

The City of Bell reserves the right to request certain Jail employees who have established a positive work performance while working as a Bell Jailer. The City also requests consideration of Bell Explorers and Cadets who are of legal age to work with the contracted jail service provider as jailers in the City of Bell Jail.

The City of Bell reserves the right to reject any or all proposals or waive any informality or irregularity in the proposals or the proposal procedures and shall be the sole judge of the proposals received. The City may reject proposals from contractors who have previously failed to meet their obligations to the City of Bell. All proposals shall be valid for a period of 120 days after City’s proposal deadline, notwithstanding any award of Contract by the City to another contractor.