Agenda

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C. 36

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	David O. Livingston, Sheriff-Coroner
Date:	January 10, 2017

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

West Advanced Technologies, Inc.

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 01/10/2017

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, 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 10, 2017
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Sheriff-Coroner, or designee, to execute a contract with West Advanced Technologies, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $250,000 to provide consulting, design development, programming services, and maintenance and support for the Automated Regional Information Exchange System for the period January 2, 2017 through June 30, 2018.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Grant Funding of up to $200,000; remaining $50,000 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

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

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, maintenance and support services to the Sheriff’s Office. The project is being designed to include modernizing user interface within ARIES application, implementing user training navigator and application user interface monitoring tools. The ultimate goal of this project is to make the user’s experience as integrated and intuitive as possible. There are currently more than 9,000 users from over 93 different agencies participating in the system.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

ARIES is 13 years old, the system is aging and 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 9,000 users.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

N/A