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C. 69

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Marc Shorr, Chief Information Officer
Date:	May 23, 2023

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Purchase Order with Motorola Solutions, Inc

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 05/23/2023

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
Ken Carlson, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Michelle Colefield, 608-4033

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: May 23, 2023
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent to execute, on behalf of the Chief Information Officer, a purchase order with Motorola Solutions in an amount not to exceed $500,000 for the purchase of new portable radio units with encryption and security keys, for the Animal Services Department.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The cost for this purchase order will be charged to the Animal Services Department.

BACKGROUND:

East Bay Regional Communications System Authority (EBRCSA) is a Land Mobile Radio (LMR) System governed by the Joint Powers Agreement (JPA). The EBRCSA Public Safety LMR system members are every City and County law enforcement agency in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, except for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). In addition, there are some federal and State agencies that utilize the EBRCSA LMR system to speak with City and County law enforcement agencies. Based on a directive from EBRCSA and consistent with the direction provided by the California Department of Justice (CA-DOJ) Information Services Division Bulletin No. 20-09-CJIS, CA-DOJ is mandating that Criminal Justice Information (CJI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) be transmitted via a minimum of 128-bit encrypted radios. The transition to encryption requires that each of the radios in the County be configured by a qualified Communications Technician in the Department of Information Technology’s radio shop. The technician will utilize specialized equipment known as a KVL 5000 Key Variable Loader to install the AES Encryption, Multi Key so various encryption keys can be on the radio and OTAR (Over-the-air Rekeying) for future updates to the encryption. Motorola Solutions, Inc. is the only provider which can supply the encryption for the Motorola System as the engineering is proprietary.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this purchase is not approved, the current radios utilized by Animal Services will not be properly encrypted and will put public safety at risk.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

None.