Department: Purchasing
Department Head/Elected Official: DeWight Dopslauf
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Financial Authorization
Project ID (if applicable): N/A
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): LEO Technologies, LLC (DIR-CPO-4912)
MWDBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A
MWDBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: Exempt - Sole Source
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
title
Request for approval of a sole source exemption from the competitive bid requirements and the County Judge execute an agreement with LEO Technologies, LLC (DIR-CPO-4912) in the amount of $10,800,000 for software for analytics and investigation of authorized inmate communications for the Sheriff's Office for the period of September 27, 2022 - September 26, 2024.
end
Background and Discussion:
Requested by Texas Anti-Gang Center at 2500 East T.C. Jester Blvd. Houston, Texas 77008; on behalf of all participating agencies in TAG Center with a nexus to all Harris County Sheriff’s Office detention/custodial facilities.
Expected Impact:
Agreement to provide automated analytics investigative software leveraging authorized inmate communications originating from correctional facilities’ phone systems. The software ingests, aggregates, processes, analyzes these communications in near-real time, which allows these communications to be indexed by every single word. This investigative tool is proprietary and allows for unlimited users to search a repository of over 60,000,000 authorized inmate communications.
Alternative Options:
Alignment with Goal(s):
X Justice and Safety
_ Economic Opportunity
_ Housing
_ Public Health_ Transportation
_ Flooding
_ Environment
_ Governance and Customer Service
Prior Court Action (if any): N/A
|
Date |
Agenda Item # |
Action Taken |
|
|
|
|
Location: Sheriff’s Office
Address (if applicable):
Precinct(s): Choose an item.
|
Fiscal and Personnel Summary |
|
Service Name |
Dispatch and Communications |
|
|
SFY 22 |
FY 23 |
Next 3 FYs |
|
Incremental Expenditures (do NOT write values in thousands or millions) |
|
Labor Expenditures |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|
Non-Labor Expenditures |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|
Total Incremental Expenditures |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|
Funding Sources (do NOT write values in thousands or millions) |
|
Existing Budget |
|
Grant |
$10,800,000 |
$ |
$ |
|
Choose an item. |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|
Choose an item. |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|
Total Current Budget |
$10,800,000 |
$ |
$ |
|
Additional Budget Requested |
|
Other |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|
Choose an item. |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|
Choose an item. |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|
Total Additional Budget Requested |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|
Total Funding Sources |
$10,800,000 |
$ |
$ |
|
Personnel (Fill out section only if requesting new PCNs) |
|
Current Position Count for Service |
- |
- |
- |
|
Additional Positions Requested |
- |
- |
- |
|
Total Personnel |
- |
- |
- |
Anticipated Court Date: September 27, 2022
Anticipated Implementation Date (if different from Court date):
Emergency/Disaster Recovery Note: Not an emergency, disaster, or COVID-19 related item
Contact(s) name, title, department: George E. Rhyne, Jr., Administrator, Texas Anti-Gang Center
Jorge Geronimo, Contracts Administrator, Purchasing
Attachments (if applicable): Letter and Agreement