RESOLUTION NO.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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RESOLUTION WAIVING THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS PROCESS AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AN AGREEMENT WITH NORTHROP GRUMMAN

TO UPGRADE THE MESSAGE SWITCH AND COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH SYSTEMS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE.

RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, that

WHEREAS, there has been presented to this Board of Supervisors for its consideration and acceptance an Agreement, reference to which is hereby made for further particulars, whereby Northrop Grumman shall upgrade the Message Switch System (MSS) and Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) System hardware and software; and

WHEREAS, MSS provides access to local, state, and federal information including warrants, missing persons, stolen vehicles, etc. to local law enforcement agencies including the Sheriff’s Office and every city police department within the County; and

WHEREAS, CAD is an essential tool that provides Public Safety Communications the ability to accurately and rapidly dispatch of law enforcement, fire and Emergency Management System (EMS) resources; and

WHEREAS, Northrop Grumman has provided upgrade services and maintenance support for MSS and CAD for over 13 years; and

WHEREAS, the hardware platform for MSS and CAD have become obsolete and Northrop Grumman no longer supports the hardware and proprietary software on an ongoing maintenance basis; and

WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the County to waive the Request for Proposals process and enter into an Agreement with Northrop Grumman as a sole source provider in order to maintain system integrity and ensure a successful upgrade allowing the MSS and CAD to retain all the enhancements that have been performed over the years; and

WHEREAS, both parties now wish to enter into an Agreement, to upgrade the hardware and software for the MSS and CAD systems, for the period of August 1, 2006 to April 30, 2007, and an amount not to exceed four hundred seventy-eight thousand dollars ($478,000); and

WHEREAS, this Board has been presented with a form of such Agreement and has examined and approved same as to both form and content, and desires to enter into same:

NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DETERMINED AND ORDERED THAT: the Request for Proposals process is waived, and the President of this Board of Supervisors be, and is hereby authorized to, execute the Agreement with Northrop Grumman, for and on behalf of the County of San Mateo, and the Clerk of this Board of Supervisors shall attest the President’s signature thereto.

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