Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the transfer of signature authority from the Chief Innovation Officer to the City’s Director of Public Service or the Director of Public Service’s designee for all past, present and future contracts and modifications entered into by the City of Columbus in connection to the Smart Columbus - CVE On-Board Unit System Integrator project with Yunex LLC, along with all future documents requiring signature until the project is completed.
This second modification will authorize the Director of Public Service to modify a professional services contract with Yunex LLC to add additional funds for support and maintenance of the Smart Columbus - CVE On-Board Unit System Integrator.
Ordinance 1669-2019 authorized the Chief Innovation Officer to enter into a professional services contract with Yunex LLC for the Smart Columbus - CVE On-Board Unit System Integrator project. As part of Columbus’ overall response to the Smart City Challenge, the Smart Columbus Program Management Office (PMO) engaged a consultant capable of and qualified to integrate connected vehicles into the City’s transportation environment by installing technology into vehicles to communicate with the environment; and develop and deploy the CV applications that enable the enhanced safety and mobility features Smart Columbus desires.
Ordinance 1204-2021 authorized modification 1 which was necessary for support and maintenance on Connected Vehicles on-board equipment and applications for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) Safety and Mobility applications.
This is a planned modification and is needed to maintain and operate the Columbus Connected Vehicle Environment which currently has 900 vehicles including over 300 Columbus vehicles with the 78 Roadside Units operating at traffic signals. Over $7 million of investment was put into the Connected Vehicle Environment project and has always been planned to be maintained after the Smar...
Click here for full text