CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the award of RFP 22-287, Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Consultant Services, to TUSA Consulting Services for an amount not to exceed $194,620 and for a three-year term with two, one-year options
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DEPARTMENT: Information Technology
SUBMITTED BY: Jackie Nguyen, Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
N/A
BACKGROUND:
The City of Naperville currently operates an OpenSky Land Mobile Radio (LMR) System from L3Harris that was implemented in 2008-2009. The OpenSky system is being phased out by the vendor and the current maintenance contract ends in April 2025.
In addition to OpenSky being phased out, the City needs to resolve reliability and coverage concerns regarding how the radio system performs today for public safety in order to better meet the critical communication needs of Police, Fire, and EMS personnel.
The implementation of a replacement radio network is complex and can take approximately two years. Staff solicited proposals from experienced and qualified independent consultants to partner with the City to provide direction, analysis, designs, and recommendations for upgrading the public safety radio system to a P25 standards network.
The selected consultant's primary responsibilities will include:
1. Phase 1: Infrastructure and needs assessment, feasibility analysis, and preliminary design and cost
The City is already gathering proactive proposals from L3Harris and Motorola so the consultant should compare and understand the differences between their own assessment and what the vendors are providing.
2. Phase 2: Detailed design, invitation to bid development, contractor selection, and procurement
3. Phase 3: Implementation and project management
DISCUSSION:
Advertisement Date:
09/23/2022
Notices Sent:
200
Opening Date:
10/19/2022
Planholders:
16
Proposals Received:|1010|
Proposals were received from the following vendors:
Televate, LLC
Tusa Consulting Services II, LLC
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