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CITY OF MIAMI, FLORiOA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
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Chief Administrator/City Manager
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DATE : February 11, 2005 FILE!
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Media Video Enhancement System
REFERENOER
ENCLOSURES:
Acquisition of Ocean Rackmount Avid
An investigation was conducted by staff to determine whether Ocean Systems, toasted at 4016 Blackburn Lane,
Burtonsville, Md. 20866, is the sale source provider of the Ocun Rackmount Avid Media Video Enhancement
System ("System"), including training and one-year maintenance, for the Department ofFoNce.
Avcording to the laliarni Police Deportment, the Ocean Raolanount Avid Media Enhancement System will
provide the Department with the capability of viewing, processing and/or analyzing surveillance video tape
from crime scent's. The dTectiver'M Vomiio package is currently utilized by federal, state and local law
enfercesment agencies to provide the tack to quickly clarify, manage and present video evidence.
The Ocean Rackmount Avid Media Enhancement System is a profbasional, stationary turnkey system. This
system and the dTectivelll forensic bundle enables users to do field acquisition, clarification, analysis, turd
presentation of eurveiilance video images to produce results never before available. The analysis of this video
evidence is paramount to the seccessibl identification nm1 arrest of the offender(s) and prosecution of these
case., Evidence captured on videotape has boon found to bcs Hare accurate, more reliable and more convincing
than eyewitness testimony alone, As such, this system is the only video analysis system that provides, at ti
minimum, the following proprietary features: 1) a universal digital file decoder to allow work with digital file
formats (DVR dCoder), 2) searchable date base filature for video to allow investigators to quickly sort through
video by subject, 3) doplezes an unlimited number of cameras simultaneously, 4) multiple streams of
uncompressed video simultaneously, allowing reel time forensic re8ulta, 5) integrates a suapeot ar witness
written transcript directly into the motadate of the video via a simple word starch, and 6) match surveillance
with radio transmissions and 911 Communication's tapes.
According to Ocean Systems, it is the manufacturer of the dieetivems forensic package, its software is the sole
property of Ocean Systems and is available only from Doane Systems. Further, it ie the only Avid integration
partner certified to manufacture the Raolcmountrm version of the Avid Adrenaline for Windows XP
Professional. It also has the ability to publish video evidence to a variety of formats for CD-ROM, DVD, ar for
streaming an the web, and can be included in online databases for access by detectives in a police department,
Accordingly, Y am recommending that the requirements for competitive bidding be waived, and those findings
be approved: it is respectfully recommended that the City Commission waive the necessity of competitive bids
and approve: the attached Resolution for the sole source purehasc of the Ocean Rackmount Avid Media Video
Enhancement System, to include .mining and one-year maintenance, ftom Ocean Systems, far the Department
of Pollee, in an amount not to excise 8,110.00. Funding is to be provided by the Local Law Enforcement
Block Grant IX Nap. Account ' .. - .. 1.420 548.6.840.
APPROVED BY:
JAJLMWGM'/PEB
Joe ale
f Administrator/City Manager
FEB 14 a005
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