HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/20/2001 - STAFF REPORTS (20) DATE: June 20, 2001
TO: City Council
FROM: Chief of Police
AUTHORIZING PURCHASE OF PORTABLE RADIOS FROM MOTOROLA, INC., FOR THE
PALM SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT RESERVE UNIT
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the City Council authorize the purchase of nine(9)new portable radios from
Motorola, Inc., for the Palm Springs Police Department Reserve Unit, in the amount of$24,390.68
plus delivery costs.
SUMMARY:
The purchase of these radios will provide the Police Department Reserve Unit with needed
communications equipment. The radios are available only from Motorola and funds for their
purchase have been donated by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.
BACKGROUND:
In 1993, as part of a City-wide trunked radio communications system the Palm Springs Police
Department purchased a Motorola trunked radio system and portable radios for our officers and
other field personnel. (Minute Order#5233) That purchase included ten spare portable radios.
With the growth of the Department all of the spare radios have been assigned to new officers
leaving the Reserve Unit without radios. The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has
generously donated $25000 to the Department's Reserve Unit to fund the purchase of 9 radios.
Our Motorola radio system is time tested and proven. It also provides an encrypted channel for
enhanced security during undercover operations. Only Motorola radios will operate on our system;
therefore, other manufacturers' radios cannot be considered.
Funds are available in Account No. 3014-52036, Police Dept Safety Augmentation, Police Reserve
Unit Account.
APPROVED:
C. LEE E GEL HAROLD E. GOOD
Chief Police Procurement Manager
APPROVED:
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NOTICE INVITING BIDS
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA
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FOR
PROVIDING & DELIVERING KENWOOD PORTABLE RADIOS & ACCESSORIES
TO THE PALM SPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed Bids will be received at the Office of the Procurement
Manager, 3200 East Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA, until Wednesday, January 31,
2001, 2:00 P.M. local time, at which date and time they will be publicly opened and read in the
Procurement Manager's Office for providing and delivering the following:
Kenwood Portable Radios &Accessories for the Palm Springs Fire Department.
Specifications and Bid documents may be obtained from the Procurement Office or by calling(760)
323-8239. Requests for specifications to be mailed out must be addressed to the Procurement
Manager's Office, P.O.Box 2743, Palm Springs,CA 92263-2743. No Bid will be considered unless
it is made on the Mandatory Bid Submittal Forms furnished by the City.
The City of Palm Springs reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informality or
technical defect in a bid.
It is the responsibility of the bidderto see that any bid sent through the mail shall have sufficienttime
to be received by the Procurement Office prior to bid opening time. Late bids will be returned to the
bidder unopened.
The receiving time in the Procurement Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids.
Telegraphic and telephonic bids will not be accepted.
Products solicited in this bid are KENWOOD Brand, the Fire Department's standard, and no
substitutions will be accepted.
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HAROLD E. GOOD, CPPO
Procurement Manager
Date: January 12, 2001
Published in Desert Sun: January 14, 2001
MINUTE ORDER NO. 6867
AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF NINE (9) NEW
PORTABLE RADIOS FROM MOTOROLA, INC., FOR
THE PALM SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT
RESERVE UNIT, IN THE AMOUNT OF $24,390.68,
PLUS DELIVERY COSTS.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that this Minute Order, authorizing the purchase of nine (9) new
portable radios from Motorola, Inc., for the Palm Springs Police Department Reserve
Unit, in the amount of$24,390.68, plus delivery costs, was adopted by the City Council
of the City of Palm Springs, California, in a meeting thereof held on the 20th day of
June, 2001.
PATRICIA A. SANDERS
City Clerk