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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a Transaction Document with Motorola Solutions, Inc., of Los Angeles, CA, pursuant to the terms and conditions of Master Purchase Agreement No. 27106, for the purchase, upgrade, maintenance, and repair of Telecommunications Equipment, for a total contract amount of $6,783,756, plus a 7.6 percent contingency in the amount of $515,566, for a total amount not to exceed $7,299,322, for a period of three-years, including any necessary amendments thereto, provided that the total contract amount is not exceeded; and
Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications Department (DC) by $6,787,370; and decrease appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Fire Department (FD) by $6,787,370. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The City has received grant funding in the amount of $6,787,370 from the Department of Homeland Security under the 2015 Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) program to improve interoperable communications in the Los Angeles/Long Beach region. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved the funds to be spent to upgrade the City’s dispatch consoles, microwave network and the core system with up-to-date technology. The existing system was installed in 2002, is obsolete and, therefore, is no longer supported by Motorola. The City’s Police, Fire, Public Works, Parks, Recreation and Marine, Disaster Preparedness, Airport, and other departments rely on this equipment for day-to-day and emergency response radio communications. The upgraded equipment is compatible with other Los Angeles agencies, which will allow for interoperable communications and coordination within the region in the event of a disaster. This could play an essential role in Long Beach’s timely response and recovery to a major regional disaster.
Due to the required interoperability with the Los Angeles region...
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