Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management, on behalf of the Department of Public Safety, to establish a purchase order in the amount of $339,923.00 from an existing UTC (FL005296, BPO BPCMP45B) with AdvizeX Technologies for the purchase of secondary data storage for the arbitrator cruiser camera video system in the Division of Police. Contract with AdvizeX expires June 30, 2015. The data storage equipment is needed to replicate large amounts of data and information from the primary storage unit for the Police video application. This additional video storage will assure data integrity in the event of data corruption or hardware failure on the primary storage unit. This additional video storage will provide backup capacity and align Public Safety operations with technology best practices and give a quick recovery path for video operations in the event of a hardware failure.
This ordinance also authorizes an amendment to the 2014 Capital Improvement Budget (CIB) and authorizes the City Auditor to transfer funds between projects within Public Safety's Capital Improvement Funds.
EMERGENCY: Emergency action is requested to ensure that the necessary purchase order for equipment and services is established in a timely manner to eliminate the risk of data recovery failures.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $339,923 in the Safety Voted Bond Fund for the purchase of a secondary data storage equipment for the arbitrator cruiser camera video system, software and services from Advizex Technologies. An amendment to the CIB and the transfer of funds within Safety's Capital Improvement Funds are necessary to complete this transaction.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE NUMBERS:
Vendor Name: AdvizeX Technologies F.I.D.#/CC#: 37-1504931 Expiration Date: 08/04/2016
Title
To amend the 2014 Capital Improvement Budget; to authorize the transfer of $339,923 between projects wit...
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