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~_- CITY OF SANTA ~~ ANA .,=1,= }~ ~ ~ _ __ FINANCE & MANAGEMENT SERVICES AGENCY PURCHASING DIVISION 20 cw~c ci.rr~rr.x PLA'LA M-16 P.O. 130X 1988 SAN"I'A ANA, CALII'ORNL~ 92702 REQUEST FOR EXCEPTION TO COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS Requests for exceptions to the competitive bidding process require detailed justification. This form must accompany your requisition whenever an exception to the competitive bidding process is requested. Such a request should not be made unless supported by factual statements that will pass an independent audit. Failure to respond fully to any of the questions could result in delay or rejection of your request due to inadequate justification. The Buyer or F&MS Agency Administrative Services Manager will determine whether the justification is appropriate. 1. Describe the product or service you wish to procure. Use enough detail to clearly describe what you are procuring to someone not familiar with the process. The City of Santa Ana proposes to purchase and deploy a California Statewide CopLink Information sharing user "site" license. This license after dissemination will allow all California Law Enforcement Professionals access to CopLink. This site license encompasses all jurisdictions that currently have no access to CopLink nodes or CopLink licenses. The CopLink Solution Suite of software organizes and rapidly analyzes vast quantities of structured and seemingly unrelated data, currently housed in various incompatible databases and record management systems, over a highly secure Intranet-based platform. COPLINK also provides advanced privacy and security features. A completely integrated solution, COPLINK is tactically sophisticated, user friendly, adaptable to agency preferences, affordable, and scaleable. COPLINK helps prevent acts of terrorism by consolidating, sharing, and identifying the most valuable information Law Enforcement has -online databases and criminal records. Most crimes committed involve repeat offenders whose criminal history, details and associations already exist in various database systems -neighboring police forces or national database systems. COPLINK is developed by Knowledge Computing Corporation (KCC) in Tucson, AZ. This powerful artificial intelligence based software application is a tried and tested application for fighting crime and terrorism. Often characterized by existing users as "a super Google for police officers", COPLINK allows officers and detectives to quickly and easily view the results of sophisticated analysis, from complex data searches that uncovers hidden relationships and associations across multiple database sources, even in legacy systems, whether they are available locally, regionally, or nationally. ~~lyl~ ~nks to any type of database.