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TO: Mayor Thomas J. Weisner
FROM: Andrew Feuerborn, Police Technical Services Director
DATE: March 2, 2016
SUBJECT:
Request a Resolution authorizing the purchase of Nimble Storage equipment from Sentinel Technologies, Inc. of Downers Grove, IL for the Police and Fire Departments' CAD & RMS project via a National Association of State Procurement Official's (NASPO) contract in an amount not to exceed $257,157.
PURPOSE:
In December 2015, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure Inc. was contracted by the City for the purchase of new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Enterprise Records Management Systems (RMS) to replace the City's legacy public safety systems. This purchase from Sentinel is one of several necessary to begin building out the infrastructure required for the new systems. The items being requested are based on specifications provided by the Police and Fire Departments' chosen CAD and RMS vendors.
This new hardware will allow the City to move forward with migrating its Public Safety CAD and RMS systems to the new platforms while still maintaining the legacy systems until such time as they can be decommissioned and/or repurposed.
Sentinel has been a City vendor for several years and has provided both hardware and IT services in a variety of key technology areas gaining knowledge of the City's existing infrastructure and needs over these years.
BACKGROUND:
As previously indicated to City Council, procurement of products and services from Intergraph and third party vendors for the CAD and RMS project will be conducted via a phased approach. Third party vendors were approached for quotes and budgetary estimates that would form the basis of design/cost for the overall CAD and RMS project. Early procurements for the project will include supporting infrastructure as well as down payments to Intergraph as outlined in the City's contract Milestone Payments to Intergraph. Some monies are being held outside of the Intergraph contract to a...
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