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Consider a memorandum/resolution approving a Professional Services Agreement with Blue Skies Associates for data migration to the Niche Records Management System, in the amount of $75,000.
Summary
DATE: October 17,2023
TO: Kent Cagle, City Manager
FROM: Willie Resto, Executive Director of Information Technology
SUBJECT: Professional Services Agreement with Blue Skies Associates
BACKGROUND AND FINDINGS:
In January 2022, Council approved the Centurion Niche Records Management System (RMS) Interagency Agreement.
The Interagency Agreement designates the RMS to be shared among agencies in an effort to more efficiently obtain, assess and utilize criminal justice information. The agreement names the City of Temple as the host city while Bell County and the City of Killeen are designated as backup sites.
Niche Technology will provide services and software for all development, implementation, training, maintenance, and support related to implementing the Police Department Records Management System. Niche Technology will be available for continuous, on-going maintenance and support.
The following project milestones have been completed.
? June 2022 - Temple Police Department begins contract negotiations with NicheRMS
? March 2023 - Temple Police Department completes contract negotiations contract signed between City of Temple and NicheRMS
? April 2023 - August 2023
? Installation of NicheRMS in development environment
? Deployment of system ready for user acceptance testing
? Complete and test application interfaces
? Next Step Data Conversion - estimated start date January 2024
Blue Skies Associates is an accredited Niche partner and has already contracted with the City of Temple to perform their data conversion and has the knowledge and experience with the data from WebRMS to the new NicheRMS system.
Blue Skies Associates will work closely with Killeen PD and City of Killeen staff to design an agreed approach to mapping and validating th...
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