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C. 72

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	David O. Livingston, Sheriff-Coroner
Date:	January 5, 2016

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Synesis Inc.

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 01/05/2016

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Sandra Brown, 925-335-1553

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: January 5, 2016
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Sheriff- Coroner, or designee, to execute a contract with Synesis Inc., in an amount not to exceed $350,000 to provide consulting, design development, programming services, and maintenance and support for the Automated Regional Information Exchange System (ARIES) for the period January 2, 2016 through June 30, 2017.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Grant Funding of up to $225,000; remaining $125,000 ARIES Funding.

BACKGROUND:

The Automated Regional Information Exchange System (ARIES) is a software application owned by Contra Costa County, and used by County and other law enforcement agencies to manage arrest and parolee data collected from law enforcement agencies. ARIES manages arrest and parole data provided by local law enforcement agencies that is stored on a County server. The purpose of this Contract is for Contractor to provide consulting, design development, programming services, and maintenance and support services to the Sheriff’s Office. There are currently more than 8,000 users from over 93 different agencies participating in the system.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

ARIES is a 12 years old system in need of improvements to support a modern, advanced, industry standard model. If this contract is not approved, ARIES will not be able to upgrade and implement a sophisticated data sharing system for more than 8,000 users.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

No impact.