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TO: Mayor Richard Irvin
FROM: Michael Pegues, CIO
Jeff Anderson, Deputy CIO
DATE: August 26, 2024
SUBJECT:
Resolution requesting approval of an addendum to an existing Preventive Maintenance & Support of City-wide security/CCTV cameras contract from Scientel Solutions LLC., 2021 N Eola Rd, Aurora, IL 60502.
PURPOSE:
After a competitive bidding process, Council Resolution R21-135 awarded preventative maintenance and support of the City's CCTV devices to Scientel Solutions LLC ("Scientel").
This agreement was approved as a three-year term with optional three 1-year extensions upon mutual consent. The optional first year was offered and accepted in March 2024.
Management of these CCTV devices has been consolidated and is maintained city-wide via the Genetec Security Center. This resolution seeks to provide support to the Physical Access Control Systems (PACS) (aka 'card readers') currently in place at hundreds of doors throughout city buildings.
BACKGROUND:
Over the last several years, city-wide door access control (card reader) has also been moved into an enterprise wide Genetec Security Center solution. Legacy systems that only supported door access control or those that were end of life have been removed and replaced by Genetec Security Center. These decentralized, legacy systems included Milestone, Casi-Rusco and Facility Commander implementations.
The Genetec Security Center is a unified security platform that combines access control, CCTV capabilities, communications, and other security capabilities into a single solution.
Use of the Genetec Security Center solution has provided staff with one enterprise-wide solution to manage both CCTV devices as well as door access controls. This has been a highly effective, cost saving solution and has also allowed the City to consolidate from three different makes of proximity cards to one.
This resolution seeks to ensure that the PACS in place throughout city buildings are under a preventative maint...
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