To: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
From: CHRISTOPHER BENSON, INFORMATION TECH DIRECTOR
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APPROVE AGREEMENT WITH HITECH SYSTEMS INC. DBA PULSIAM FOR SAFETYNET REPORTING SERVER SOFTWARE AND DATA MIGRATION SERVICES FOR THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $51,845.60 FOR THE TERM JANUARY 19, 2021 TO JANUARY 18, 2022.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On December 17, 2017, the Redondo Beach City Council approved a five-year agreement with Mark43 for a replacement Records Management System (RMS), with an option to purchase the Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD). On July 2, 2019 the purchase of CAD was approved in addition to a first amendment to the master agreement to facilitate a complete RMS and CAD transition from the existing vendor Hitech Systems / Pulsiam (Pulsiam) to Mark43.
The Redondo Beach Police Department (RBPD) would like historical data migrated from the existing CAD/RMS to the new Mark43 system. Per the attached agreement, Pulsiam will install its SafetyNet Reporting Server and migrate ~28 years of public safety data from the existing proprietary database to a Microsoft SQL database. Mark43 can then migrate the exported data into their cloud solution. The SafetyNet Reporting Server will actively migrate data as the Pulsiam system is updated within the year-long agreement.
BACKGROUND
RBPD has utilized a CAD/RMS system since the 1980's. Pulsiam CAD/RMS was selected in 1993 to replace a Command Data Systems CAD/RMS that had been in service since ~1986. Mark43 CAD/RMS was approved by City Council in 2017 to replace the current Pulsiam CAD/RMS.
Approximately 28 years of data exists within the current proprietary Pulsiam database. Both RBPD and Mark43 wish to migrate much of this historical data into the new Mark43 CAD/RMS system. This can only be accomplished if the historical data resides in a Microsoft SQL database. The only way to reliably migrate data out of the Pulsiam database in a way that makes it available for Mark43 to import is to use Pulsiam's SafetyNet ...
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