AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET
DEPARTMENT: Materials Management
ACM: Bryan Langley
AGENDA DATE: March 21, 2017
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Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas authorizing the approval of a first amendment to a contract between the City of Denton and LabWare, Inc. for Laboratory Information Management System software consulting, training, technical support, and maintenance for an additional three (3) year period, extending the contract approved by City Council on February 4, 2014, in the amount of $72,840 for software for the City of Denton Municipal Laboratory; providing for the expenditure of funds therefor; and providing an effective date (File 5441-providing for an additional expenditure amount not-to-exceed $109,960, with the total contract amount not-to-exceed $182,800). The Public Utilities Board recommends approval (5-0).
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FILE INFORMATION
The City Council approved a contract with LabWare, Inc. on February 4, 2014, in the amount of $72,840 for Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) software for the City of Denton Municipal Laboratory. The system is designed to track all data associated with samples from receipt, analyses, reporting, disposal, and quality assurance. The system also automates chemical and reagent inventories, greatly enhances instrument interface capabilities, and offers the ability to create customizable reports for operational use. The system also assists the Municipal Lab with meeting current and upcoming digital reporting requirements as regulatory agencies transition from paper-based to digital reporting. Since this time, staff has completed database setup and initial implementation. The software is highly customizable, which provides great flexibility to meet unique user-defined requirements. However, to take advantage of this flexibility, expertise with customizing the program's architecture is needed. Unfortunately, some vital staff expertise was lost when the Municipal Lab's LIMS...
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