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Dept/ Agency: Law
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Purpose: Settlement of Civil Litigation
Docket No.: Pre-Suit
Claimant: Amcom Software, Inc.
Claimant's Attorney: none
Attorney's Address: 10400 Yellow Circle Drive, Suite 100, Eden Prairie, MN 55343
Settlement Amount: $135,360.00
Funding Source: City of Newark 2011 Police Budget
Additional Comments:
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WHEREAS, on January 1, 2009, AmCom Software, Inc. (“AmCom”) began to provide annual maintenance and support services for the Newark Police Department PC-PSAP (Public Safety Access Point) solution, which includes software, software licensing, hardware, and interfaces to other critical police systems which services continued until July 1, 2010; and
WHEREAS, the twenty-four hours per day/seven days a week annual maintenance which has been provided by AmCom specifically covers the Newark Police Department’s essential services for the following: 32 Calltaker workstations, 32 TDD/TTY interfaces and equipment, Support for the CAD interface, Public Automated Location Identification (ALI) Retrieval, Time Synchronization interface between AmCom servers and CAD client machines, 20 Digital Automated Number Identification lines, 1 ANI/ALI printer (support of for 911 hang ups), 66 Block and Patch Panel, Redundant File server, 32 Microsoft SQL Server Licenses, and 32 Hardware Modems; and
WHEREAS, AmCom has invoiced the City in the amount of $101,020.00, for these services; and
WHEREAS, the parties were unable to enter into a written contract because Amcom was not the holder of a State Contract for these services, its predecessor company Xtend Communications Corporation was still the named entity on the State contract until its recent re-assignment to Amcom, however, all services were provided upon the request of the Newark Police Department because these services are critical to preserve and protect the health, safety and welfare of Newark residents; and
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