Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The Division of Mobility Options has a contract with ACS State and Local Solutions Inc. to provide parking ticket processing services for the City of Columbus. This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify and extend the contract between ACS State and Local Solutions and the Department of Public Service, Division of Mobility Options, from April 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013.
The first of six years of the agreement between ACS State and Local Solutions and the Department of Public Service, Division of Mobility Options was authorized by Ordinance 0217-2008. The first of five renewal options for this contract was authorized by ordinance 0392-2009. The second of five renewal options for this contract was authorized by Ordinance 0546-2010. The third of five renewal options for this contract was authorized by Ordinance 0373-2011. This ordinance authorizes the fourth of five renewal options for this contract.
This contract is a complete turnkey system that includes all software, hardware, licenses, and maintenance necessary to process parking citations on a transaction fee basis. It presently includes: a cash remittance system that incorporates walk-in, US Mail, pay-by-web, and pay-by-phone technologies; data entry, data processing, mailing of notices; a registration hold interface with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles; and a secondary collection effort for tickets that remain unpaid after going through the entire noticing process and still remain outstanding. The net funds collected under this effort are deposited in the General Fund, while a collection percentage fee is deposited in the Collection Fees Fund, established by the City Auditor and Department of Finance and Management through Ordinance 0474-2003.
Searches in the Excluded Party List System (Federal) and the Findings for Recovery list (State) produced no findings against ACS State and Local Solutions.
2. CONTRACT COMPLIANCE
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