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t 11 LIM • <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />JANUARY 21, 2014 <br />TITLE: <br />CONTRACT AWARD TO <br />VECTOR RESOURCES, INC. <br />FOR ARUBA WIRELESS <br />COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY <br />(SPEC. NO. 13 -061) <br />-CITY MANAG R <br />CLERIC OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />� .0 1 <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on I" Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Award a contract to Vector Resources, Inc. for the purchase of Aruba wireless communications <br />technology in an amount not to exceed $338,000, subject to non - substantive changes approved <br />by the City Manager and City Attorney, <br />DISCUSSION <br />Implementing the use of technology to improve the delivery of services is a component of the <br />City's strategic plan. The Finance and Management Services Agency Information Services <br />Operations Division will implement a wireless communications initiative for the use of wireless <br />internet service in city buildings. The goal of the communications initiative is to enable more <br />community self - service and to make it possible for more City staff to act as field workers in the <br />community directly providing /coordinating services. The communications initiative will deliver <br />technologies, tools, and targeted problem solving approaches to deliver customer support. <br />The communications initiative will achieve these goals by employing a wide range of mobile <br />technology in concert with the City's existing technology and do so in innovative and creative <br />ways. The flexibility, agility, and immediacy of mobile platforms will be exploited with the added <br />capability to connect to the City data and analytics. This integration is the key to providing <br />improved /new service delivery and doing so productively and efficiently. <br />To move the City's communications initiative forward, the Information Services Operations <br />Division needs to put in -place some basic mobile infrastructure as a foundation for other <br />technology components. These include standardized Wi -Fi capability in all City buildings [to <br />enable mobile computing for staff, visitors, patrons, guests, etc.], standardizing most commonly <br />used smart device applications [to promote user training and consistency of the user experience <br />while controlling cost], implementing enterprise management software for mobile devices [to <br />protect City content, to ease access to the vast store of City computerized information and to <br />22A -1 <br />