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AN ORDINANCE TO WAIVE COMPETITVE BIDDING AND AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF SIEMENS’ TACTICS CENTRAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS THAT:
SECTION 1. The City of Jonesboro desires to synchronize traffic signals along its’ major corridors to facilitate more efficient movement of traffic along these routes.
SECTION 2. The current use of three (3) remote master controllers and ten (10) stand-alone site controllers limits staffs ability to optimize signal coordination among multiple corridors, to make changes to timing patterns along individual corridors for varying traffic conditions, or to verify operational status and troubleshoot problems with specific signalized intersections without considerable delay.
SECTION 3. A centralize traffic management system is needed to serve as the platform on which an effective traffic signal synchronization plan can be developed, operated, and maintained.
SECTION 4. Siemens’ Tactics Central is a scalable traffic management software package that can serve as this traffic management platform and has been recommended to staff by representatives of the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD).
SECTION 5. Temple, Inc. of Decatur, Alabama is the sole source provider of Siemens’ software in the southern region of the United States.
SECTION 6. That said software can be purchased from Temple, Inc. for the sum of $84,500.00 to be paid from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant; at no cost to the City of Jonesboro.
SECTION 7. That the City Council in accordance with the terms of A.C.A. Section 14-58-302 does hereby waive the requirement of competitive bidding and authorizes the purchase of the described traffic management software as set forth in Section 6 above.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 20th day of September, 2011.