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TO: Mayor Richard Irvin
FROM: Commander Steve Stemmet
Jeff Anderson, Deputy CIO
Mariusz Gil, Director, Infrastructure & Operations
DATE: January 3, 2022
SUBJECT:
A Resolution authorizing the purchase of two LiveScan biometric capture devices from Idemia Identity & Security USA LLC, Anaheim, CA for $45,671.00, purchasing 2 years of support of those devices at $18,352.00 and purchasing a 6-month support agreement on the currently-owned LiveScan devices for $7,065.50, for a total award of $71,088.50.
PURPOSE:
The Police Department has used two TPE LiveScan devices for many years to capture biometric data and the current hardware is beyond end of life. This resolution will provide for the short-term support of the existing hardware while new hardware is purchased, delivered and configured.
BACKGROUND:
The LiveScan solution is utilized by the Police Department to speed up the registration and enrollment of biometric data, while maintaining rigorous quality control at each step of the capture process.
LiveScan supports multi-modal biometric data capture and enrollment including fingerprints, palm prints, facial images, DNA, iris, scars, marks and tattoos, and demographics. Registration data is stored and transmitted using industry-standard formats and security protocols. These devices have been configured by Idemia to query State databases for biometric data.
Idemia will bring forward the existing integrations to the State databases at no cost to the City.
These LiveScan devices were purchased and installed at two locations at the Police Department in December, 2014 from MorphoTrust USA, which is now Idemia. Support on these devices has been discontinued by Idemia leaving the City's upgrade path to be a new purchase of hardware.
DISCUSSION:
The initial purchase price of these two new devices is $45,671.00 which includes 1 year of warranty support. Support for years 2 and 3 amounts to $18,352.00.
To ensure that the currently-owned LiveScan devices r...
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