Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Public Safety Director to enter into a contract with Tyco SimplexGrinnell to design and install twenty-seven neighborhood safety camera systems in nine locations, as part of a comprehensive approach to preventing and fighting crime in Columbus neighborhoods. This is the continuation of the Neighborhood Safety Program started in 2011 via ordinance 0787-2011, passed on 5/23/2011 authorizing the installation of safety cameras in five Columbus neighborhoods. The program has since been expanded to include a total of 300 cameras in 100 locations in Columbus neighborhoods that include the Hilltop, Livingston Avenue, Mt. Vernon, Weinland Park, and Linden. This ordinance will increase the number of cameras in the five original neighborhoods and install new cameras in Franklinton, the Far East and Far North areas of columbus.
Tyco SimplexGrinnell was one of two vendors that responded to the RFSQ (SA005896) on June 18, 2015 and was pre-qualified by the evaluation committee to submit a formal proposal. The two firms invited to submit proposals were Tyco SimplexGrinnell and Hitachi Data Systems. Tyco SimplexGrinnell was the only vendor to submit a formal proposal which was evaluated in accordance with the relevant section of the Columbus the City Code Chapter 329.
Emergency action is requested due to the lead-time in design work and the need to have the cameras in place as soon as practical.
Fiscal Impact: This legislation authorizes the Safety Director to enter into contract with Tyco SimplexGrinnell for the installation of twenty-seven neighborhood safety cameras in nine different locations in the City of Columbus. The Neighborhood Safety Cameras project is budgeted at approximately $1.27 million in new and carryover funds in the 2016 Capital Improvement Budget.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into a contract with Tyco SimplexGrinnell for $720,000.00 for the in...
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