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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Alex G. Alexandrou, Chief Management Officer
DATE: October 19, 2018
SUBJECT:
Request a resolution to approve an Agreement with Smart City Media (SCM), LLC of New York, NY for the installation, operation and revenue sharing of interactive outdoor kiosks using the City Post smart media platform.
PURPOSE:
This Agreement ("Agreement") involves the installation of eight (8) Smart City Media City Post interactive media kiosks in various proposed downtown locations as well as the Route 59 Train Station. In addition, the kiosks are also supported and augmented by the use of both a smart phone application and mobile beacons placed in local participating businesses.
The current proposed locations selected are as follows:
> Water Street Mall (Entrances to South end of mall)
> Paramount Theater (Main Entrance to Lobby)
> Aurora Arts Center (Outside front entrance)
> Development Services (Main Entrance to new office [old PNC Bank building])
> River Edge Park (Outside Main Entrance near bike rack)
> (2) Route 25 ATC (near bike rack and ramp to platform)
> Route 59 Train Station (Sidewalk near steps to platform)
BACKGROUND:
In selecting Smart City Media, City staff reviewed various vendors' offerings while attending smart city conferences in Washington, DC, Chicago, and Kansas City, MO over the past year. Smart City Media stood out from other vendors with respect to the range of features built into the kiosks themselves as well as the additional software, hardware and services that were included out-of-the-box in addition to the kiosks themselves. SCM's offering of a turnkey solution with no upfront costs, and all future maintenance, support, administrative, sales and replacement costs covered by SCM was also a leading factor in selecting SCM.
SCM currently has twenty one (21) City Contracts in place throughout the country. Of these twenty one contracts SCM kiosks have been successfully deployed in a number of communities around ...
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