TITLE
Title
APPROVE REVISED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF GREENSBORO FOR SYSTEM MAINTENANCE ON 800 MHZ RADIO SYSTEM
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SPONSOR
Sponsor
Jim Albright
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BACKGROUND
Background
Guilford County and the City of Greensboro have shared ownership of the 800 MHz trunked public safety radio system from inception in 1995. Over the past decade, the system has undergone a number of system upgrades and enhancements.
Additionally, the City of Greensboro has served as the maintenance contractor for the system since inception. This has been handled through a series of amendments to the original contract 36460-04/95-211, and currently will be Amendment #15.
This amendment addresses the following: A five (5) year term of renewal to align with the City of Greensboro’s renewal of software agreements including 50% share of the annual maintenance agreement with Motorola, 50% share of third party vendor MCM Technologies and 50% share of Genesis. The Motorola agreement handles all the software and hardware support for a highly technical Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system. Specifically, the greatest threat to the public safety radio system is cybersecurity and these agreements make sure we have the latest updates to secure this critical infrastructure. The other agreements are for MCM Technologies which provides asset tracking of the system components and subscribers, and Genesis provides a software called GenWatch3 which allows for monitoring, management, and reporting on Motorola voice and data systems.
Additionally, the agreement allowed for the County to purchase in FY24 three (3) SeeHawk Monitor P25 Remote Test Units with spectrum analysis for interference testing of Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) and Bi-Directional Amplifiers (BDA's) that could be detrimental to the function of the public safety radio system. The City has already purchased the equivalent amount of units to allow for a total of six (6) sites to triangulate interference on the system. These ...
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