Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into contract with Intrado Life & Safety, Inc. (formally, Intrado Life & Safety Solutions Corporation) for the second year of a maintenance agreement for the City's 911 System in the Support Services Division. This is year two of a five-year maintenance agreement that will further enhance the 911 System to ensure that it stays National Emergency Number (NENA) compliant. The City of Columbus operates a fully redundant, geo-diverse set of Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) controllers that currently support operations at the Columbus wireless PSAP, the Columbus backup PSAP. The Division of Support Services upgraded the existing 911 system in 2023. This upgrade procured new hardware as well as upgraded software to ensure compliance with NENA standards and to provide continued services, and requires annual maintenance.
Bid Information: This annual maintenance to the 911 system is being executed in accordance with the sole source provisions of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Code; Intrado Life & Safety, Inc. (formally, Intrado Life & Safety Solutions Corporation) is the proprietary software licensing and maintenance contractor for the City's current 911 System.
Contract Compliance number: CC-053232 Intrado Life & Safety, Inc (formally, Intrado Life & Safety Solutions Corporation) 84-0796285, expires July 30, 2027.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is necessary to ensure that the 911 system is being maintained and the contract is executed in the shortest possible time in order to ensure the optimum level of this critical service to the citizens of Columbus.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the Safety Director to spend $204,102.72 to maintain the contract with Intrado Life & Safety, Inc. for the maintenance and support of the City's 911 system. This ordinance also authorizes the transfer of funds from object class 02 to object class 03 within Support Services’ General Fund budget to properly align appropriation with projected expenditure.
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To authorize the City Auditor to transfer funds in the amount of $100,000.00 within the Support Services’ general fund budget; to authorize the Director of Public Safety to enter into contract with Intrado Life & Safety, Inc (formally, Intrado Life & Safety Solutions Corporation) to continue the maintenance of the city's current 911 system pursuant to the sole source provisions of the Columbus City Code; to authorize an expenditure of $204,102.72 from Public Safety's General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($204,102.72)
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to transfer funds within the Division of Support Services’ general fund budget; and,
WHEREAS, it is also necessary to continue maintenance on the recent upgrade to the City of Columbus' 911 controllers to comply with the National Emergency Number (NENA) next generation 911 standards; and,
WHEREAS, Intrado Life & Safety, Inc (formally Intrado Life & Safety Solutions Corporation) is the current vendor and sole source provider of the City's current 911Viper system; and,
WHEREAS, Intrado Life & Safety, Inc (formally Intrado Life & Safety Solutions Corporation) is the only vendor who can maintain this system; therefore, this ordinance is being submitted in accordance with the sole source provisions of the Columbus City Code Chapter 329; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual and daily operation of the Department of Public Safety in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into contract with Intrado Life & Safety, Inc (formally Intrado Life & Safety Solutions Corporation) to ensure the continuation of the maintenance and support of the City's 911 system for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, property, safety, and welfare, now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized to enter into contract with Intrado Life & Safety, Inc (formally Intrado Life & Safety Solutions Corporation) for the continuing maintenance of the recent upgrade of the current 911 system.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer funds within the General Fund, Division of Support Services, per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance in the amount of $100,000.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $204,102.72 or so much thereof as may be necessary regarding the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized from Fund 1000 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 5. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 6. That this agreement is entered into pursuant to the sole source provisions of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Code.
SECTION 7. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part thereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.