DATE: June 21, 2016
TO: Board of Mayor and Aldermen
FROM: Eric Stuckey, City Administrator
Russell Truell, Assistant City Administrator / CFO
Rocky Garzarek, Fire Chief
Todd Horton, Deputy Fire Chief for Administration and Emergency Management
Brian Wilcox, Purchasing Manager
SUBJECT:
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Acknowledge report of sole-source purchase from Locution Systems, Inc. of Golden, Colorado of certain software and hardware components of, as well as project, engineering and installation oversight for and training on the use of, a fire station alerting system for Station 8 in the total amount of $152,005.00 for the Fire Department
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Purpose
The purpose of this procurement is to purchase certain software and hardware components of, as well as project, engineering and installation oversight for and training on the use of, a fire station alerting system for Station 8. A fire station alerting system automatically alerts only the station(s) that needs to respond to the emergency rather than all stations, while allowing the emergency dispatchers to continue gathering critical incident information and/or providing guidance to the caller. This purchase does not include installation (because the system would be installed by City employees), network connectivity, wiring and some computer and radio hardware that is to be procured separately by the City, or retrofitting other stations of the Franklin Fire Department (as the timing of that undertaking is unrelated to the construction of Station 8).
Background
City Purchasing Policy allows for the following category of sole-source purchases valued at or greater than $25,000 not to require individual authorization by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen (but which shall be reported to the Board): Purchases of items necessary to maintain, expand or improve a manufacturer-specific system already in use by the City and that requires interconnectivity of and/or communication between the component parts, so long as the prod...
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