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November 16, 2023 Item #7

Agenda Item 7

7. RESOLUTION NO. ____________ - TWENTY-SECOND AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT\nNUMBER C-123897 BETWEEN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES AND MOTOROLA\nSOLUTIONS, INC. FOR THE 700 MHZ RADIO SYSTEM\nSummary: Staff requests approval of a Twenty-Second Amendment to C-123897 (Transmittal\n1), the Master Service Agreement (MSA) between the City of Los Angeles (City) and Motorola\nSolutions, Inc. (Motorola). Approval of the Twenty-Second Amendment is requested to extend\nthe term of the agreement and to increase the not-to-exceed amount. These changes are\nnecessary to facilitate an increased scope of work for the upgrade to the 700 MHz system. This\naction will authorize an additional 15 months which will result in a seven-year contract term. It\nwill also authorize an additional $1,454,231.26 for a contract amount not-to-exceed\n$18,026,109.96. Payment of expenses incurred under this Amendment to the MSA is the\nfinancial responsibility of the City of Los Angeles Harbor Department (Harbor Department);\nhowever, portions of the project have been reimbursed through the 2018 and 2019 Urban Area\nSecurity Initiative (UASI) grants.\nRecommendation: Board resolve to (1) find that the Director of Environmental Management has\ndetermined that the proposed action is administratively exempt from the requirements of the\nCalifornia Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under Article II Section 2(f) of the Los Angeles City\nCEQA Guidelines; (2) find that in accordance with the Los Angeles City Charter Section 1022,\nthe services to be provided herein are of a professional, expert, technical, and of a temporary\nand occasional character, and there are no known Harbor Department personnel or current City\njob classifications with the expertise to perform the work being proposed for contracting; (3) find\nthat in accordance with the Los Angeles City Charter Section 1022 and Los Angeles\nAdministrative Code Section 10.15(a)(10) the proprietary nature of 700 MHz technology,\nespecially the software, limits the availability of specialized expertise to only the particular\nsystem vendor, and the desire to utilize the same public safety system as the Los Angeles Police\nDepartment (LAPD) would make it undesirable or impractical to utilize another system vendor;\n(4) approve the Twenty-Second Amendment to MSA C-123897 between the City of Los Angeles\nand Motorola Solutions, Inc.; (5) direct the Board Secretary to transmit the Twenty-Second\nAmendment to MSA C-123897 to the Los Angeles City Council for approval pursuant to Section\n373 of the Charter of the City of Los Angeles and Section 10.5 of the Los Angeles Administrative\nCode; (6) authorize the Executive Director to execute and the Board Secretary to attest to the\nAmendment; and (7) adopt Resolution No.____________.\nPort Police