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C.124

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	David O. Livingston, Sheriff-Coroner
Date:	September 11, 2018

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Costa

County

Subject:

Purchase Order - Motorola Solutions

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 09/11/2018

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:	Liz Arbuckle, (925) 335-1529
cc:	Liz Arbuckle Heike Anderson Paul Reyes

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: September 11, 2018
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent to execute, on behalf of the Sheriff-Coroner, a purchase order with Motorola in an amount not to exceed $271,431 to purchase the upgrades necessary for the Sheriff’s Office radios to function on the Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) technology.

FISCAL IMPACT:

$271,431. 100% County General Fund; Budgeted

BACKGROUND:

The Office of the Sheriff's EBRCS radio system is reaching capacity. We are now having what we refer to as "busies" on the system. This is where a Public Safety Person must be put into a queue to transmit on the system. The current system uses Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) technology, also known as P25 Phase I. EBRCS is currently undergoing an upgrade to use Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) technology, also known as P25 Phase II. The upgrade to Phase II allows two Public Safety Personnel to operate on the same 12.5 MHz channel that Phase I uses for one transmission, thus doubling available bandwidth.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

The upgrade to Phase II will be completed in July of 2020 at which point radios only capable of Phase I will no longer work with the EBRCS system.

Motorola is offering discounted pricing of $248 per radio for this upgrade. The discounted pricing is good through September 2018 after which the price will go back up to $518 per device. Regardless of the discount there is also an estimated $50 labor fee for performing the update by the County Department of Information Technology. There are 791 devices needing to be upgraded.