Entities that provide ambulance or any other emergency or non-emergency response services that were already selected through a competitive bid process by a federal, state, county, city or other local government entity to perform such service in a specific geographical area meet the competitively bid contracts exemption to the maximum rates requirement of Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4101.5(c). The Department of Mental Health may, without a further competitive bid, enter into a service contract with these entities at the previously accepted competitively bid rates.
Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 9, § 4520
Note: Authority cited: Sections 4005.1, 4027 and 4101, Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Section 4101.5, Welfare and Institutions Code.