The Chief of Police for the Houston Police Department recommends that City Council approve an ordinance to appropriate $1,144,000.00 from the Equipment Acquisition Consolidated Fund (Fund1800). This appropriation is budgeted in the FY2016 Capital Improvement Plan Budget approved by City Council on July 8, 2015. HPD will purchase equipment, software and services from “Go Direct” vendors through the City’s master agreement with the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR). These purchases will not exceed the spending authority of $300,000 per vendor as previously approved by City Council.
HPD will follow all procurement policies and procedures when purchasing the items for the projects listed below:
1. Police Operational Refresh
WBS# X-100007 $244,000.00
Purchase of equipment, installation, configuration and software updates/upgrades required to meet operational needs and normal data storage growth requirements for the Houston Police Department; this equipment includes servers, Storage Area Network (SAN), professional services and other server related software.
2. HPD Back Up Data Center
WBS# X-100005 $200,000.00
Purchase of equipment, circuits, services and software to implement a backup center for mission critical systems. The current backup system has no network redundancy or circuits necessary to distribute mission critical applications to stations. This center is needed in the event of a catastrophic loss of the primary data center.
3. Internal Affairs Case Management System
WBS# X-100019 $500,000.00
Purchase licensing and equipment needed to expand an enterprise workflow and document management solution for Internal Affairs throughout the department.
4. HPD PC Replacement
WBS X-100026 $200,000.00
Procurement of replacement desktop technology for approximately 700 computers that will be over 5 years old. The Houston Police Department is not included in the citywide refresh that is conducted by the Houston Information Technology Department.