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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a contract and any amendments thereto with Securus Technologies, of San Clemente, CA (not a MBE, WBE, SBE, or Local), at no cost to the City, for providing inmate phone service at the Long Beach City Jail, for a period of one year, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (District 1)
DISCUSSION
The Department of Financial Management, Purchasing Division, in conjunction with the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD), issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for providing inmate phone service. In accordance with California Penal Code 851.5, immediately upon being booked, and, except where physically impossible, no later than three hours after arrest, an arrested person has the right to make at least three completed telephone calls.
The RFP for inmate phone service was issued on March 2, 2010, and 266 potential bidders specializing in telecommunications consulting were notified. Of those bids, 20 downloaded the RFP via our electronic bid system. The RFP document was made available from the Purchasing Division, located on the seventh floor of City Hall, and the Division’s website at www.longbeach.gov/purchasing
. An RFP announcement was also included in the Purchasing Division’s weekly update on Open Bid Opportunities, which is sent to 30 local, minority and women’s business groups. Seven proposals were received on the due date of April 9, 2010. Of those seven proposers, two were Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBEs), two were Women-owned Business Enterprises (WBEs), three were Small Business Enterprises (SBEs) and one was a Long Beach business (Local).
Securus Technologies was selected as the most qualified vendor based on the revenue formula offered in their proposal, which offers 51 percent of gross billable revenue. In FY 2010, there were 23,853 telephone calls made, which resulted in $38,052 in reve...
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