Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Safety, on behalf of the Division of Support Services, to enter into contract with Public Safety Corporation for software upgrade to the current Medallion System in the License Section. Medallion is a software application purchased in 2010 as part of the Computer Aided Dispatching Systems (CAD). It is a license and permit application that holds all of the data for our licensing categories, as well as does billing and invoicing for the License Section. This upgrade will support Weights & Measures billing, payment processing and accounts receivable management requirements. It will also allow for online payments. It will be separate from the current alarms (Crywolf) and miscellaneous permits (Medallion) databases and will provide restricted data management access to Weights & Measures information. The financial system will be interfaced to the current WinWam system to allow scheduled inspection events to trigger invoice transactions within the Medallion system. This ordinance requests the purchase be made under sole source procurement as Crywolf is the current software standard in use by the Support Services Division and it is not efficient or necessary to procure another full software package to implement this online application and payment process.
Bid Information: This agreement is being entered into under the Sole Source provisions of the Columbus City Code because Public Safety Corporation is the only vendor who can provide licenses to their proprietary software.
Sole Source Provider: Public Safety Corporation- CC #46-5165540 - expires 11/10/18
Emergency Designation: Emergency designation is requested to provide the citizens the ability to make payments for Weights & Measures transactions online.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation authorizes the purchase of a software upgrade to Support Services' current Medallion billing and accounting system for $36,200....
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