0002687-000 Paternity Testing - DNA.pdf

Governor Tony Evers Secretary Jeff Pertl dcf.wisconsin.gov

Division of Management Services 201 West Washington Avenue Phone: 608-422-7000 Grants and Contracts Section P.O. Box 8938 Fax: 608-422-7163 DCF-F-463-E (R. 04/2026) Madison, WI 53708

CONTRACT

by and between

Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and

DNA Diagnostics Center

CONTRACT NO ASSISTANCE LISTING #

437004-M26-0002687-000-01 N/A Additional Federal Award Information

COMMODITY OR SERVICE TITLE

Paternity Testing

CONTRACT TERM

07/01/2026 – 06/30/2029

DCF CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR CONTRACT BILLING AND PAYMENT TERMS

Nicole Price – (608) 422-6215 If applicable, monthly payments from submit invoices nicole.price@wisconsin.gov via STAR

CONTACT INFORMATION

DNA Diagnostics Center

Authorized Signatory Kathy Leis kleis@dnacenter.com

Address 1 DDC Way

Fairfield OH 45014-2281

Phone (513) 881-4005

Supplier Contract Admin Kathy Leis kleis@dnacenter.com

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Funding Information for Contracts managed thru STAR:

All funding allocations are subject to Federal and State budgetary changes.

The Department and the Contractor acknowledge that they have read the Contract and the attached exhibits, addenda and requirements, understand them and agree to be bound by their terms and conditions. Further, the Department and the Contractor agree that the Contract and the exhibits and documents incorporated herein by reference are the complete and exclusive statement of the agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter of the Contract and supersede all proposals, letters of intent or prior agreements, oral or written, and all other communications and representations between the parties relating to the subject matter of the Contract. DCF reserves the right to reject or cancel agreements based on documents that have been altered.

By signing below, I, a representative of the contractor, certify to the best of my knowledge and belief that the information provided herein is true, complete, and accurate. I am aware that the provision of false, fictitious, or fraudulent information, or the omission of any material fact, may subject me to criminal, civil, or administrative consequences including, but not limited to violations of U.S. Code Title 18, Sections 2, 1001, 1343 and Title 31, Sections 3729-3730 and 3801-3812.

This Agreement becomes null and void if the time between the earlier dated signature and the later dated signature exceeds sixty (60) calendar days, unless waived by the Department.

Signatures

Date

Division Administrator Date Wisconsin Department of Children and Families

Deputy Secretary Date Wisconsin Department of Children and Families

Contractor: DNA Diagnostics Center STAR Supplier ID: 0000100439

Commodity or Service Description Award Amount

Paternity testing for counties, tribes and adoption agencies Refer to Attachment C:

Bid Price Sheet

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Connie Chesnik

Nadya Perez-Reyes

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Jason Judd

President

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Exhibit 1: SPECIFICATIONS FOR PATERNITY TESTING

A. Personnel

• The laboratory shall be under the direction of an individual with a doctoral degree who is qualified by advanced training and/or experience in parentage testing.

• Tests shall be performed by personnel, or contracted personnel, of the Contractor who are qualified to perform such testing. The competency of the technical staff shall be the responsibility of the director of the laboratory.

• The laboratory director and technical staff shall participate in continuing education relative to the field of parentage testing.

• A qualified individual shall be available to act as an expert witness in the event that legal testimony related to the test results is required.

B. General Operational Standards

• The Contractor’s laboratory shall have sufficient space, equipment, facilities and supplies to maintain safe and acceptable standards of performance.

• The staff of the Contractor’s laboratory shall be competent and adequate for performance of the required testing.

• The laboratory shall be in compliance with relevant safety codes including provisions for safe handling of blood and genetic samples, reagents and proper disposal of wastes.

• The Contractor’s laboratory shall utilize a program of quality control that is sufficiently comprehensive to ensure that reagents, equipment and personnel perform as expected. These shall be performed using appropriate sample and reagent controls.

• Reagents shall be stored and used appropriately.

• Samples shall be handled, processed and tested in a manner that ensures accuracy of test results.

• Tests shall be performed by standard methods or by methods independently verified by the laboratory.

• The Contractor’s laboratory shall participate in available external proficiency testing programs in all systems of phenotyping utilized by the laboratory.

• A manual detailing all procedures and policies shall be developed and maintained, and it shall be reviewed annually by the director of the laboratory.

C. Identification, Specimen Collection and Documentation

1. Individual and Specimen Identification

• There shall be a verifiable means for identification of all individuals who present themselves for testing. The donor’s identity must include a photograph identity (government issued picture id is preferred) and a fingerprint.

• A record shall be kept at the testing facility of all identifying information, including but not limited to, name, relationship, race, date of birth and place and date of collection of samples. The signature of the person or the guardian shall verify information about each individual.

• The date of birth of the child and a recent transfusion history (90-day history).

• Samples shall be identified with a firmly attached label bearing a unique identification for each individual and the date of collection.

• The name of the person collecting the test sample shall be a part of the permanent record.

2. Storage and Handling

• Specimens shall be handled and stored in a manner that will preclude contamination, tampering or substitution.

D. Testing Standards

• The Contractor shall maintain American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) accreditation as a relationship (DNA) testing laboratory.

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• The Contractor shall use a battery of tests, which meets and/or exceeds the requirements of AABB, to perform analysis on the genetic system of each donor to bring the level of probability of paternity to the proper percentage (99.0%) probability of paternity with a prior probability of 0.5 (50.0%).

• Test shall be completed under the guidelines of the American Association of Blood Banks.

• Genetic Testing shall be completed in accordance with generally accepted procedures within the scientific community.

E. Services to be Provided

• Contact shall be made with the Contractor directly by the court, county/tribal child support agency or adoption agency.

• The Contractor shall provide the service of genetic material analysis in establishing paternity, to the court and the county child/tribal support agency or to the adoption agency arranging the test.

• Persons subject to the test are those determined by the court and/or child support agency to be necessary in determining paternity of a child, and include the child, mother, and putative father(s) plus any other family members. Contractors shall have the ability to perform motherless paternity calculations and test various types of specimens including tissue from deceased individuals.

• The laboratory, in conjunction with the local agency shall arrange for the collection of genetic material (including buccal) samples or the collection of blood samples (if necessary) of the parties for transfer to the testing laboratory. These arrangements will be specified in the local agency purchase order with the laboratory.

• The cost of all tests shall include, but not be limited to, the cost of collecting and transporting the samples from the local agency to the laboratory. The laboratory may offer a discounted rate to agencies which arrange for specimen collection by some party other than the vendor. The discount arrangement is between the agency and the vendor.

• Contractors shall provide genetic testing services outside the established genetic testing collection site and shall provide or arrange for genetic testing services outside the State of Wisconsin, including international collections, as necessary. In the event a redraw is necessary, the testing laboratory shall be responsible for the cost of the recollection. The turnaround time is reset to reflect the date of the second collection.

• The testing laboratory shall provide at no cost to the county/tribe child support agency or adoption agency, the means to take photographs of all persons from whom a sample is collected, taken at the collection facility to ensure positive identification.

• The testing laboratory is to provide appropriate mailing supplies for shipment of test samples to the testing lab at no additional cost to the county/tribe child support agency or adoption agency, including those used for any collection performed away from the designated collection facility.

• The testing laboratory shall be responsible for transporting specimens in sealed containers, and verifying it through the use of standard protocols in chain of custody documents.

• The testing laboratory shall have a system to monitor the accuracy and precision of each analytical procedure for every assay performed in the lab.

• Testing of genetic systems by the Contractor shall include multiple systems that result in a cumulative probability of exclusion of at least 99%. For a non-excluded putative father, testing by the Contractor shall include multiple systems which result in an inclusion rate (probability of paternity) of at least 99% with a prior probability of 0.5 (50%).

• For each putative father tested, the Contractor shall utilize testing systems which result in a finding of non-paternity, or, when the putative father is not excluded, result in a probability of at least 99% with a prior probability of 0.5 (50%).

• At the state's request, the Contractor shall conduct a minimum of one (1) training seminar in Wisconsin per year for prosecuting attorneys and other county/tribal child support staff, or adoption agency staff, involved with paternity testing. Training must focus upon sample analysis in paternity actions, as well as providing updates on new occurrences in the field of testing as related to paternity, as services or new information becomes available. These training events can be conducted at times

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• Service shall be provided under the terms of the contract and at the request of the court and/or prosecuting attorney for all paternity cases for which the agency requests services.

• The director of the laboratory shall make available expert witness testimony for depositions and in court in the county contracting with the laboratory at the request of the prosecuting attorney or adoption agency. The individual providing the expert testimony shall be personally familiar with the processes and procedures used in the laboratory. The cost of travel, food, lodging and testimony shall be at the expense of the contracting laboratory.

F. Report of Test Results and Calculations

• A written report on the results of the test shall be issued to the appropriate authorized individuals as designated by the county child support agency or adoption agency following completion of the tests.

• The report shall contain at a minimum o The date(s) of collection of the samples.

o The laboratory’s accession (case) number and the court or administrative case number.

o The name of each individual tested and the relationship to the child.

o The date of birth for each individual tested.

o The racial origin(s) assigned to the mother and alleged father(s) for the purpose of calculation.

o The phenotypes established for each individual in each genetic system examined.

o A statement as to whether or not the alleged father can be excluded.

o If an opinion of non-paternity is rendered, the basis for the opinion shall be provided.

o If there is a failure to exclude, the report shall include:

A) The individual Paternity Index for each genetic system reported.

B) The Cumulative Paternity Index.

C) The probability of paternity expressed as a percentage. The prior probability used to calculate the probability of paternity shall be stated.

o An explanation as to the nature of the problem shall be given if the results are inconclusive.

o The certified signature of the laboratory director.

G. Calculations

• Computer assisted analyses shall be reviewed, verified and signed by the supervisor and/or laboratory director before issue.

• The method of calculation shall be validated.

• If only manual calculations are done, two qualified individuals shall do them.

• Gene and haplotype frequencies shall have been obtained from examination of population of adequate size.

H. Timeframes

• Services are to be provided as needed. The Contractor shall make available emergency appointments and test kits for individuals in prison or in other circumstances when a person cannot appear at the collection site.

• The testing laboratory shall make transportation arrangements to ensure that genetic samples reach the testing laboratory within a timeframe that is acceptable within the scientific community or based on accreditation standards. The testing laboratory shall assume the cost of any courier or other transportation of the samples.

• Tests shall be made upon submission of samples received from the source drawing the samples unless testing cannot be successfully completed because such samples are contaminated, outdated, or otherwise unusable.

• For child support agencies, a report shall be issued 15 calendar days (excluding legal state and federal holidays) from the date of the mailing or picking up of the samples, except under special circumstances or in cases such as Family Study or Motherless cases, in which case the report will be issued within a timeframe agreed upon between the local agency and the contractor. Fees are to be

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I. Service Documentation

The Contractor agrees to maintain records required by the county/tribal child support agency or adoption agency and to produce narrative and statistical data at times prescribed by, and on forms furnished by, the county/tribal child support agency or adoption agency.

Contractor will retain all documents applicable to the work performed under this contract for a period of not less than three (3) years after final payment is made. The Contractor shall provide records to the agency for whom the work was performed when requested or the courts if subpoenaed. Minimally the reports must include the number of tests performed per organization and statewide, and total dollars spent per agency and statewide.

J. Fiscal Requirements

The Contractor shall maintain a record system that documents the total number of samples tested and total costs by agency both in the calendar year and in the state’s fiscal year (July 1 through June 30). The cost per individual shall be used in claiming payment under the agreement between a county or adoption agency and laboratory. Payment shall be made only for tests actually performed. Vendors may make special provisions in their contract with individual agencies for billing on partial cases and cases with multiple potential fathers. Payment may be made for a new test on cases where there is more than one alleged father and a test on a second alleged father is requested at a time after the test for the first alleged father was conducted. (Fees are to be waived for any tests for which results are not issued within 15 days, unless the agency and the laboratory have made other arrangements.)

Invoices must include at a minimum:

• The County Circuit Court case number or Administrative case number

• Individuals’ names and relationship

• Date of collection.

K. Customer Service

• Contractor shall provide technical advice to agencies on an as-requested basis.

• Contractor shall return agency phone calls within four (4) working hours. Returning a phone call includes leaving a voice mail or other message if the agency contact person is not available. This provision is for the purpose of establishing a minimum level of responsiveness for communication with the agencies. It does not require the contractor to solve a problem with an order within four (4) working hours.

• Agencies will specify tests to meet the quality standards established for this contract. Each agency will need to choose a laboratory that can perform the type of test the agency wants performed. The contractor shall question and recommend adjustments to tests that, if processed as specified by the ordering agency, will not provide the necessary results. In the event the ordering agency elects to proceed with the test as originally specified, the contractor is responsible only for performing the test.

• Contractors may contact individual agencies to inform them of any services that they are capable of providing that go beyond the minimum described in this RFB. The inclusion of information about these extra services in the bid document will not affect the award decisions.

L. Audits - State and/or Federal State and/or federal auditors and State employees may require access to Contractor records pertaining to the Contract for purposes of conducting audits and business process reviews. The Contractor agrees to allow access to their location and records upon receiving a twenty-four (24) hour notice.

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DNA

Diagnostics Center

Description Effective Dates Required/ Optional

Unit of Measure

Unit Price Per Test

Paternity Testing, include sample collection

July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027, Required Each $39.75

Paternity Testing, include sample collection

July 1, 2027 - June 30, 2028, Required Each $39.75

Paternity Testing, include sample collection

July 1, 2028 - June 30, 2029, Required Each $39.75

Paternity Testing, no sample collection

July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027, Optional Each $25.00

Paternity Testing, no sample collection

July 1, 2027 - June 30, 2028, Optional Each $25.00

Paternity Testing, no sample collection

July 1, 2028 - June 30, 2029, Optional Each $25.00

Attachment C:

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