Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Safety, on behalf of the Division of Support Services, to enter into a maintenance agreement with Cincinnati Bell, Inc. dba Agile Network Builders, LLC to maintain the connectivity from the communication towers to the City’s dispatch centers. This is a leased circuit system the City uses to tie the radio system sites and dispatch centers together to operate, and in turn, to connect them to the state where the primary radio system resides.
The radio system is used as a primary source of communications from the Department of Public Safety's dispatch center to public safety units in the field, for internal communications of public safety units, and for interoperability communications between federal, state, and other local public safety agencies. Other Departments use the radio system for similar communications with their employees in the field. The system aids the dispatchers by transmitting critical information by voice signal to radio users in the field.
Bid Waiver Justification: Cincinnati Bell, Inc. dba Agile Network Builders, LLC is the provider for the first of multiple required network connections to the State of Ohio MARCS system. Agile provides these services to MARCS on a state term contract which benefits the City by being on the same network, thus providing system redundancy, interoperability with MARCS and Franklin County equipment, as well as monitored network management. The original contract covered the first 5 years of maintenance, which ended in 2023. The Department of Public Safety is requesting, for the third year in a row, to continue the maintenance annually by entering into a new contract.
Contract Compliance:
Cincinnati Bell, Inc. dba Agile Network Builders LLC - Vendor#051655- Contract Compliance Number # 311056105
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this service was budgeted and is available in Division of Support Services general fund budge...
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