25H - DEVELOP COMM PLANS AND TRAINING AND EXERCISE PLAN FOR SOUTHERN PLANNING AREA

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CONSULTANT AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 5`h day of July, 2010, by and between GTSI Corporation, a Virginia corporation (hereinafter "Consultant"), and the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation organized and existing under the Constitution and laws of the State of California (hereinafter "City"). RECITALS A. City, acting through the Santa Ana Police Department in its capacity as a Core City and lead agency for the Anaheim /Santa Ana Urban Area under the FY07 Urban Az•eas Security Initiative ("UASI"), has applied for, received and accepted a grant fiom the United States Department of Homeland Security, which developed the Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program (IECGP) to provide funds to emergency fizst responders to improve interoperable emergency communications, including communications in collective response to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters, by specif tally providing funds for the creation of plans, protocols and procedures, hereinafter referred to as "the Grant". B. The City desires to contract with an expert in the field of bringing the California Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (Ca1SIEC) Southern Planning Area (SPA) initiative into compliance, as appropriate, with the California State Communication Interoperabiiity Plan, National Emergency Communication Plan and z•elated communication interoperability national best practices and lessons learned. C. Consultant represents that they have the necessary skills and experience to provide assistance in developing such public safety interoperable communications. D. Consultant has submitted a Proposal which identifies the scope, tasks and general time lines for providing the services and the costs thereof. E. In undertaking the performance of this Agreement, Consultant represents that it is knowledgeable in its field and that any services perfozmed by Consultant under this Agreement will be perfozmed in compliance with such standards as may reasonably be expected from a professional consulting firm in the field. NOW THEREFORE, inconsideration of the mutual and respective promises, and subject to the teams and conditions hereinafter set forth, the parties agree as follows: 1. SCOPE OF SERVICES Consultant shall provide Administrative Planning Support, Professional Staff Planning Support, and Technical Planning Support as required to the Southern Planning Area in accordance with Consultant's Proposal, attached hereto as Exhibit A, and incorporated by reference. All services required hereunder shall confozm in all respects to standards for such public safety interoperable communications development issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Page 1 of 8 25H-3