Explanation
BACKGROUND:
To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management, on behalf of the Division of Support Services, to establish a purchase order with Sound Communications Inc., to purchase an upgraded Audio Digital Communications Recording System for the Police and Fire Communications System. The Department of Public Safety expects to receive $1,859,996.28 from the wireless E911 Government Assistance Fund from Franklin County to complete a much needed upgrade to the City's E911 system. This legislation is a request to use Safety Bond Funds to purchase an upgraded Digital Communications Recording System. The current system is an analog and does not have the speech and screen capture capabilities of the Digital System
A Digital Communications Recording System is an equipment that is essential in logging Police, Fire and EMS, E911 dispatched calls, and radio communications. The Digital Communication Recording System, along with the other upgrades to the E911
system, will have the additional functionality of speech anaytics, screen capture, quality assurance software and will support the digital upgrade of the voice communication system.
Bid Information: Sole Source Provider: Sound Communications Inc. CC #311331321 - expires 4-11-2014
Emergency Designation: Emergency designation is requested to ensure the continued reliability of the Police and Fire Communication Systems.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation authorizes the purchase of a Digital Communications Recording System for Police and Fire communications from Sound Communications Inc., under the sole source provision of the Columbus City Code. Funding for this expenditure is available in Public Safety's Capital Improvement Fund. This ordinance will also amend the 2012 Capital Improvement Budget (CIB) and transfer funds between projects between the Safety Bond Fund.
Title
To amend the 2012 Capital Improvement Budget; to aut...
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