STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Public Safety
AGENDA DATE: August 28, 2024
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): N/A
DEPARTMENT: Police Department
EXECUTIVE: Dominique Artis
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a five-year purchasing agreement for a Law Enforcement Monitoring Facility product for the Dallas Police Department - Gladiator Forensics, LLC, sole source - Not to exceed $196,400.00 - Financing: Confiscated Monies-Federal Fund ($102,000.00) and General Fund ($94,400.00) (subject to annual appropriations)
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BACKGROUND
This action does not encumber funds; the purpose of a purchasing agreement is to establish firm pricing for services, for a specific term, which are ordered on an as-needed basis according to annual budgetary appropriations. The estimated amount is intended as guidance rather than a cap on spending under the agreement, so that actual need combined with the amount budgeted will determine the amount spent under this agreement.
This sole-source purchasing agreement will provide for a Law Enforcement Monitoring Facility (LEMF) product that will include Gladiator's Enterprise Sensor Processing and Analytics platform, Gladiator Autonomous Receiver platform, and IQ Express Portal integrated platforms. This agreement includes system setup and five licenses allowing fifteen end-users to access the platforms, training, and five years of maintenance.
The vendor's LEMF platform can ingest data from all common telecommunications carriers, including calls, texts, and other data types, and act as a highly integrated solution capable of communicating with mapping and analyzing datasets generated by existing surveillance equipment. By extending our data interpretation capabilities beyond just call data from major carriers, we can enhance our investigations with additional data sets. This will allow for a more comprehensive analysis, which is pivotal in building robust cases. Our current systems are not capable of interpr...
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