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CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO :
FROM
The Honorable Mayobers
of thelCity Commi
Joe 4rrola
Chi dministrator/City Manager
DATE : FILE
SUBJECT
Resolution Authorizing the
Waiving of Sealed Bids
REFERENCES :
ENCLOSURES:
Sole Source Purchase of
the Omnitrak Latent Station
LEG 7-2
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the City Commission waive the requirement of competitive
bids and approve the attached Resolution for the sole source purchase of the Omnitrak Latent
Station, from Printrak, A Motorola Company, a Non-Local/Non-Minority vendor located at 1250
North Tustin Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92807, for the Department of Police, in an amount not to
exceed $110,000. Funding is available from the Law Enforcement Trust Fund, Project Numbers
690001, 690002 and 690003.
BACKGROUND
Pursuant to Resolution No. 96-627, the Police Department received City Commission approval to
purchase the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) from Printrak, under a sole
source designation due to the proprietary nature of the hardware and software design. AFIS stores
fingerprints in a computer readable format, which allows for rapid identification. This system
allows the Miami Police Department to interface with Miami -Dade County and Florida
Department of Law Enforcement's fingerprint and criminal databases. This system will become
obsolete in the later part of 2006, and will negatively impact the work being performed now, and in
the future, to the point that the department would not have the capability to search any type of
latent fingerprint.
Printrak has already begun to replace the model currently used by the Miami Police Department,
the Printrak Series 2000, with the Omnitrak Latent Station. This state-of-the-art equipment is
already operational around the world, and is designed for latent print input, and review of
fingerprint and palmprint search results. Latent palmprints of value have a ratio of 48% of all
latents lifted at a crime scene. Therefore, they are a very significant part of identifying suspects. It
is imperative that the Police Department purchases this equipment immediately and not wait until
the year 2006. This is due primarily to the fact that Miami -Dade has already switched to the
Omnitrak Latent Station, and since the Miami Police Department utilizes this database, it does not
currently have the capability to search palmprints.
The Honorable Mayor and Members
of the City Commission
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Resolution Authorizing the
Waiving of Sealed Bids; Sole
Source Purchase of the Omnitrak
Latent Station
Printrak, A Motorola Company, is the sole source provider of the Omnitrak Latent Station.
Motorola and Printrak, each owns and retains all of its proprietary rights in the equipment and
software of the Omnitrak Latent Station.
FISCAL IMPACT: None, equipment acquisition will be funded by the Law Enforcement Trust
Fund.
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