Specific Explanation:
The Chief Information Officer recommends that City Council approve an ordinance to appropriate $5,500,000.00 from the Equipment Acquisition Consolidated Fund (1800) for the planned Public Safety Radio Replacement Project for Houston Information Technology Services (HITS) on behalf of Houston Police Department (HPD) and Houston Fire Department (HFD). This Project is budgeted in the approved FY2025 Capital Improvement Plan adopted by City Council.
The Project description with allocation amount is as follows:
PROJECT PROJECT NO. AMOUNT
Public Safety Radio Replacement WBS# X-680058* $5,500,000.00
This planned Public Safety Radio Replacement Project provides for the replacement and upgrade of the HPD and HFD public safety radios. This includes the purchase and replacement of portable radios (on belt) with accessories and broadband services for HPD as well as mobile (in car) radios for HPD and HFD. The City’s public safety radios were at end of life and/or end of support, and therefore under the Public Safety Radio Replacement Project the City started to replace and upgrade these public safety radios for HPD in order to continue and enhance HPD portable and mobile radio communications as well as ensuring radio reliability and uptime without disrupting user productivity. As this Project is underway for HPD’s public safety radio replacements, this appropriation allows for the City to continue to make scheduled payments under an existing approved agreement for those radios. Furthermore, this Project will also provide for the replacement of mobile (in car) radios for HFD to also ensure continued enhancements, reliability, and availability. HITS has and will leverage cooperative contract(s) and/or existing enterprise contract(s) for the purchase of public safety radios.
Fiscal Note:
No significant Fiscal Operating impact is anticipated because of this project.
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Lisa Kent, Chief Information Officer
Houston Information Technology Services