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Approve and authorize the Contracts/Purchasing Officer, or his Designee, to sign Amendment No. 3 to the agreement with TriTech Software Systems for a Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system for the purchase of the TriTech Inform CAD to Harris Symphony Fire Station Alerting interface, adding $9,240.00 to the amended agreement amount of $2,232,102.87, for an amended amount of $2,241,342.87.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Approve and authorize the Contracts/Purchasing Officer, or his Designee, to sign Amendment No. 3 to the agreement with TriTech Software Systems for a Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system for the purchase of the TriTech Inform CAD to Harris Symphony Fire Station Alerting interface, adding $9,240.00 to the amended agreement amount of $2,232,102.87, for an amended amount of $2,241,342.87.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Monterey County NGEN Public Safety Radio system, purchased from Harris LLC (Harris), is able to provide fire station alerting through the NGEN system's radio console, simultaneously transmitting specific incident data collected by the County's existing TriTech Software Systems (TriTech) Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system directly to fire stations. Fire station alerting notifies local fire stations that they are being called upon to respond to an emergency within their jurisdiction through alarms, tones, and other methods. It serves as redundant and additional notification that an imminent emergency response is required.
Fire station alerting is made possible by the transmission of CAD incident data to the NGEN radio system; an interface is thus required between the County's existing TriTech CAD and the NGEN radio system console. The Fire Station Alerting interface included in the initial TriTech System purchase agreement was based upon the Harris radio console originally purchased for the NGEN system---the Maestro model. Subsequent changes in radio system design and technology necessitated cha...
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