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Requester Name :Title:Dept: <br />Contact Name:Email:Phone: <br />Estimated Cost: <br />Complete the following checklist: This is a sole source vendor because: <br />Sole provider of a licensed or patented good or service. <br />Sole provider of items that are repair parts of or updates to existing equipment, systems. <br />Sole provider of factory-authorized warranty service. <br />What steps were taken to verify that these features are not available elsewhere? <br />Date: <br />Date: <br />Date: <br />Sole provider of unique equipment, products and/or services not offered by others. Please provide brief explanation. <br />Address: <br />Description of Product or Service: <br />Director of Finance Approval: <br />Sole source purchases are goods and services available from only one supplier/vendor or meets the listed criteria. Purchases for items that cannot be <br />procured through the competitive bidding process must be documented as to why the item(s) is considered sole source. <br />City of Pleasanton <br />Sole Source Justification <br />What specific feature makes this item and/or company unique and why is this needed for your project? <br />Other vendors were contacted (List specific company names, phone numbers and contact names, and explain why these were not suitable). <br />Other brands/manufacturers/companies were examined (List specific company names, phone number and contact names, and explain why <br />these were not suitable). <br />There is no reasonable expectation that a meaningful cost or other improvement could be realized over the incumbent contractor's <br />performance (e.g., the changes of another firm winning a competition are clearly remote. Please provide a brief explanation. <br />There is a substantial technical risk in contracting with any other contractor, (e.g., only one contractor has been successful to date in <br />implementing a difficult manufacturing process). In a brief explanation, provide supporting evidence that explains why other contractors are <br />considered to be unable to overcome the substantial technical risk. <br />Only company available to provide service and/or supplies to meet project schedule. In a brief explanation, provide supporting evidence of <br />why other contractors are considered to be unable to meet the project schedule. <br />Requestors Signature: <br />Department Head Signature: <br />Requested Sole Source Company: <br />Project Schedule (when do you need the product or service by?): <br />Heather DeQuincy Business Services Manager Police <br />Ascertain Forensics at Redwood Toxicology Laboratory, Inc. <br />Kacey Owens kacey.owens@abbott.com 800-255-2159 x34362 <br />3650 Westwind Blvd., Santa Rosa, CA 95403 <br />Blood alcohol and toxicology testing for law enforcement agencies <br />12/1/2025 $ 52,000.00 <br />Ascertain Forensics at Redwood Toxicology Laboratory (AF) offers sample pickup services at the Alameda County jail. The ability to have <br />samples taken at the jail and dropped into a safe for AF to pickup saves valuable staff time and doesn't incur delivery or pickup costs. <br />Utilizing a drop safe at the jail has been PPD procedure since 2010. <br />Central Valley Toxicology, Inc (CVT), 1580 Tollhouse Rd., Clovis, CA 93611, (559) 323-9940, is not suitable as they do not have a safe at <br />the jail. While their services and fees are competitive, it would significantly impact our existing procedure to transport samples to PPD. <br />Blood alcohol and toxicology testing is a very specific service. Of the two companies offering these services within 160 miles of Pleasanton, <br />AF is th only lab that will provide a safe for sample collection at the jail. This convenience is essential to our operation at this time. <br />4 <br />Docusign Envelope ID: 9FD2585C-32C8-4D74-9FB2-74BAEC93C6B8 <br />12/2/2025 <br />12/2/2025 <br />12/11/2025