AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET
DEPARTMENT: Materials Management
ACM: Bryan Langley
AGENDA DATE: September 20, 2016
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton authorizing the City Manager or his designee to execute a contract through the Houston-Galveston Area Council of Governments (H-GAC) Cooperative Purchasing Program for the acquisition of radios and radio accessories including replacement parts for the City of Denton; and providing an effective date (File 6216- awarded to Motorola Solutions Inc. in the three (3) year not-to-exceed amount of $2,500,000).
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BACKGROUND
The City of Denton has standardized to Motorola brand portable and vehicle mounted communication radio equipment. The standardization allows for easy communication and interchangeability between internal departments as well as communicating with external public safety departments. In addition, staff is trained to program and repair the Motorola brand equipment which is also used by Denton County and other adjacent governmental agencies. The existing City of Denton Motorola 800Mhz Trunked radios are used by the Police, Fire, Electric, Traffic, Water, and Wastewater Departments. Radios are used to communicate with internal departments on a daily routine basis, and in case of activation of a major incident by the Emergency Operations Center in which phones lines and cell service are not available, the radios will be the primary form of communication to our field personnel from the centralized command centers in Denton.
During this contract period, the City will be upgrading various communication radios from analog to a digital system. The analog radios on hand cannot communicate with other police and fire agencies, should a multi-jurisdictional event occur. The aging Denton Analog radio system presently prevents our Police and Fire agencies from being able to communicate directly with other governmental agencies that have already moved to the Digital Radio s...
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