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AUTHORIZATION FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF DATA ANALYTICS SOFTWARE WITH PEREGRINE
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DEPARTMENT: POLICE DEPARTMENT
PRESENTED BY: OLIVIA ROGERS, RECORDS & EVIDENCE MANAGER
CONTACT INFORMATION: OLIVIA ROGERS, RECORDS & EVIDENCE MANAGER, (714) 754-5696
RECOMMENDATION:
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Staff recommends the City Council:
1. Approve the purchase of data analytics software based on pricing provided through a cooperative agreement with the City of Fremont, No.21-0113.
2. Authorize the purchase of data analytics software under the awarded Organized Retail Theft Prevention Grant (ORT) with Peregrine Technologies in the amount of $315,000.
3. Authorize the City Manager and City Clerk to execute an agreement with Peregrine Technologies in a form approved by the City Attorney.
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BACKGROUND:
The Costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) seeks to appropriate funds from the State of California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) for the Organized Retail Theft Prevention (ORT) Grant award by entering into a three-year agreement with technology provider Peregrine Technologies.
Peregrine Technologies will provide real time data visualization to integrate a broad range of current and evolving technologies. Furthermore, it will provide a single point of access to view and analyze large-scale and real time data from various sources to enhance intelligence gathering, investigations, situational awareness, and officer safety.
ANALYSIS:
The proposed purchase of Peregrine Technologies software is necessary to comply with reporting requirements set forth under the awarded $3.5 million ORT Grant. The procurement of data analytics software through the ORT Grant will allow the CMPD to focus its efforts on prevention, apprehension, collaboration, and enhanced law enforcement efforts. Peregrine Technologies offers significant functionality in investigative resources and crime analytics. The integration of Peregrine with our Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), Records Management System (RMS) along with Flock LPR camera system, will be the cornerstone of real time operations. In addition to this integration, Peregrine’s investigatory capabilities, streamlined crime analysis, and ability to generate intelligence-led products and reports, makes for an extremely efficient method for turning large amounts of raw data into useful decision support and analysis with significant reduction in manual processing.
The City of Fremont completed a competitive request for proposal (RFP) process for a data visualization platform for real time operations for their police department. Their RFP process ended on September 14, 2020. In the City of Fremont’s agreement with Peregrine Technologies, cooperative language was included that allowed other California government entities to contract with Peregrine Technologies for the same or substantially similar products or services without undergoing a separate competitive procurement process. The City of Fremont awarded a three-year agreement to Peregrine Technologies.
Peregrine Technologies has expressed its commitment and enthusiasm to work with the CMPD to ensure smooth operations of real time capabilities to meet the department’s goal to centralize all events, data, and resources in one place to increase situational awareness and officer safety. Additionally, enhancing our intelligence-led policing philosophy through the use of technology to reduce crime and address community issues.
ALTERNATIVES:
The City Council may elect not to move forward with the purchase of Peregrine Technologies; however, this alternative is not recommended as the primary goal of the awarded ORT Grant is to increase directed enforcement and investigative capabilities in an effort to reduce retail theft in the community.
FISCAL REVIEW:
There are sufficient appropriations for technology software under the awarded $3.5 million ORT Grant to fund this purchase over a three-year period. This purchase will not impact the General Fund.
LEGAL REVIEW:
The City Attorney’s Office has reviewed this agenda report and approved it as to form.
CITY COUNCIL GOALS AND PRIORITIES:
This item supports the following City Council Goal:
• Strengthen the Public’s Safety and Improve the Quality of Life
CONCLUSION:
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Approve the purchase of data analytics software based on pricing provided through a cooperative agreement with the City of Fremont, No.21-0113.
2. Authorize the purchase of data analytics software under the awarded Organized Retail Theft Prevention Grant (ORT) with Peregrine Technologies in the amount of $315,000.
3. Authorize the City Manager and City Clerk to execute an agreement with Peregrine Technologies in a form approved by the City Attorney.