Yakima County commissioners rescinded a contract naming American Medical Response as the county’s sole 911 ambulance responder after the selection became controversial.
During Tuesday’s regular business meeting, commissioners approved a resolution nixing the contract, a move that will trigger a new request for proposals.
The resolution cited questions about the propriety of the process and a lack of participation by the county’s purchasing department — which typically oversees proposal requests and bidding processes — as reasons for the rescission.
Commissioners approved the contract in early February at the recommendation of a scoring committee that gave American Medical Response Inc., based in Greenwood Village, Colo., perfect marks over a competing local ambulance company, Advance Life Systems.