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Resolution Ratifying the Issuance of an Emergency Purchase Order to Amerinet Inc. for the Purchase of Electronic Multiplexing Equipment by the City Administrator and Authorizing the City Administrator to take all Necessary Actions for the Relocation of City 911 Dispatching Services ($50,496.90)
Memorandum
The attached resolution ratifies and approves the emergency issuance of a purchase order to Amerinet, Inc. for the purchase of electronic multiplexing equipment necessary to facilitate the relocation of the City’s 911 dispatching services to accommodate the planned construction of the Ann Arbor Municipal Center.
The City’s 911 dispatching services currently operate via a large underground phone line running between fire station 1 and the North Telecommunications Facility and North Utility Entrance, located off of Ann Street at the northwest corner of City Hall parking lot. It is necessary to abandon this underground phone line, the North Telecommunications Facility and North Utility Entrance to accommodate the Ann Arbor Municipal Center Project.
In order to continue to provide the necessary networking and City dispatching services, including voice, data, traffic signal and 800 MHz dispatching services, a new East Telecommunications Facility and Utility Entrance has been constructed along the south and east sides of the Larcom building. The current 911 dispatching services, which include all police dispatch radio calls, control of fire station 1’s garage doors, the traffic signals at 5th and Huron and 5th and Ann, and various other data services, will be relocated to the East Telecommunications Facility and Utility Entrance by converting the various data and voice signals so that they can run over a few fiber strands instead of a large phone cable.
Amerinet Inc.’s quote of $50,496.90 for this electronic multiplexing equipment was received by the City’s Information Technology Service Unit on Monday, April 6, 2009.
Due to Ann Arbor Municipal Cent...
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