Project Information

Bid Title

Funeral Home Services

Issuing Agency

Pierce County

Location

Washington

Published Date

Jan 9, 2025

Closing Date

Jan 15, 2025

Government Level

State & Local

Status

Closed

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Project Description

Project ID:

Title: Funeral Home Services

Addenda: 2

Release Date: 12/6/2024

Due Date: 1/15/2025

Post Information

Posted At:Fri, Dec 6, 2024 10:00 AMSealed Bid Process:NoPrivate Bid:No

Overview

Summary

Pierce County (hereafter known as 'the County') is seeking proposals from firms to provide funeral home services including transportation and storage of decedents, and coordination of the disposition of unclaimed and indigent decedents.

Background

The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office (PCMEO) operates by the authority of the laws of the State of Washington. Per RCW 36.24.155 Undisposed of remains – Entrusting to funeral homes or mortuaries: “(1) Whenever anyone shall die within a county without making prior plans for the disposition of his or her body and there is no other person willing to provide for the disposition of the body, the county coroner shall cause such body to be entrusted to a funeral home in the county where the body is found. Except in counties where the county coroner or medical examiner has established a preferred funeral home using a qualified bidding process, disposition shall be on a rotation basis, which shall treat equally all funeral homes or mortuaries desiring to participate, such rotation to be established by the coroner after consultation with representatives of the funeral homes or mortuaries in the county or counties involved.

(2)(a) The county coroner, upon knowledge that a body is of an indigenous person, shall make reasonable efforts to identify and contact family members prior to entrusting the body to a funeral home, including an attempt to facilitate contact through the regional liaison for missing and murdered indigenous persons pursuant to RCW 43.43.874 within 10 days of the county coroner having jurisdiction over the remains.

(b) Upon the written request of a family member responsible for the disposition of the body of an indigenous person, the county coroner shall provide a written estimate of the time frame for entrusting the body to the family member or the family member's chosen funeral home, unless doing so would jeopardize an ongoing criminal investigation. ”

The PCMEO is directed by Pierce County Code to administer a program to accomplish the purpose and intent of Chapter 8.92 , including the establishment of uniform rates for services. The purpose and intent of said Chapter is to comply with RCW 36.39.030 in providing for the disposition of the remains of any indigent person, including a recipient of public assistance, who dies within the county and whose body is unclaimed. The PCMEO also uses the preferred funeral home for transportation of some decedents from scenes, hospitals, and other facilities.

Timeline

Release Project Date:

December 6, 2024

Question Submission Deadline:

December 27, 2024, 4:00pm

Proposal Submission Deadline:

January 15, 2025, 4:00pm

Commodity Codes

• NAICS 812210Funeral Homes and Funeral Services

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