Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance and Management, on behalf of the Division of Support Services, to establish a purchase order in the amount of $230,000.00 with Motorola Inc., to purchase digital flashes to upgrade the portable and mobile radios. This purchase order will utilize an existing Universal Term Contract (UTC) established through the competitive bid process by the Purchasing Office with Motorola Inc., Contract number FL004701.
Purchasing the "flashes" will permit the upgrading of 232 current radios to digital ready platforms. There is a total of 1400 radios that can be upgraded to digital ready in the Public Safety inventory. This upgrading is a less expensive process than purchasing all new digital radios.
The new digital flashes to be purchased will upgrade the current older models and will allow for regional radio interoperability with surrounding Public Safety Agencies as well as provide safety to those first responders in the Divisions of Police and Fire.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: The contract compliance number for Motorola Inc is 36-1115800: Expires 3/08/2014.
EMERGENCY; Emergency designation is requested in order to ensure regional radio interoperability with surrounding Public Safety Agencies as soon as possible, provide digital upgrades to the current radios to Police and Fire and allow the Public Safety to take advantage of cost savings offered by Motorola before the end of June.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for this purchase are budgeted and available within Public Safety's 2013 Capital Improvement Budget. This ordinance will also amend the 2013 Capital Improvement Budget (CIB) and transfer funds between projects in the Safety Bond Fund. The Division spent $500,000 in capital funds in 2012 to purchase mobile and portable radios.
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To amend the 2013 Capital Improvement Budget; to authorize the City Auditor to transfer funds between projects within the Department of Pu...
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