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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO :
FROM
Glenn Marcos, Director
Chief Procurement Officer
Pamela Burns, CPPB
Sr. Procurement Contracts Officer
DATE :
SUBJECT:
FtEFERENCES :
ENCLOSURES:
August 27, 2003
Omnitrak Latent Station
FILE :
I conducted an investigation to determine whether Printrak, A Motorola Company, a Non-Minority/Non-Local
vendor, located at 1250 North Tustin Avenue, Anaheim, Ca. 92807, is the sole source provider of the OmnitrakTM
Latent Station, at a total cost not to exceed $110,000, for the Department of Police.
Pursuant to Resolution No. 96-627, the Police Department received City Commission approval to acquire the
Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) from Printrak, under a sole source designation due to the
proprietary nature of the hardware and software design, in the amount of $537,465.00. AFIS stores fingerprints
in a computer readable format, which allows for rapid identification, and 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. The AFIS system is copyrighted and proprietary to Printrak, which is its sole source
supplier.
Printrak has already begun to replace throughout the country the model currently used by the Miami Police
Department, the Printrak Series 2000, with the OmnitrakTM 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
acquires this equipment immediately and not wait until the year 2006, as Miami -Dade County has already
switched to the OmnitrakTM Latent Station. Since the Miami Police Department utilizes this database, it does not
currently have the capability to search palmprints independent of the Miami Dade County database, and it is
therefore critical that the City acquire this system expeditiously. This upgraded OmnitrakTM Latent Station is also
copyrighted and proprietary to Printrak, which is the sole source supplier.
Accordingly, I am recommending that the requirements for formal competitive sealed bidding be waived, and
these findings be approved: Printrak, A Motorola Company, a Non-Minority/Non-Local vendor, located at 1250
North Tustin Avenue, Anaheim, Ca. 92807, is the sole source provider of the OmnitrakTM Latent Station, at a
total cost not to exceed $110,000, for the Department of Police. Funding is available from the Law Enforcement
Trust Fund, Project Numbers 690001, 690002 and 690003.
APPROVED BY:
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