AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH PARADIGM SOFTWARE, LLC, TO PURCHASE WEIGH SCALE SOFTWARE SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE LANDFILL
Staff Contact: Jack Friedline, Director, Public Works
Purpose and Recommended Action
This is a request for City Council to authorize the City Manager to enter into an agreement with Paradigm Software, LLC (Paradigm) for an initial five-year period and in an amount not to exceed $69,687.60 for the purchase of weigh scale software support services. This request also authorizes the City Manager, at her discretion, to renew the agreement for one additional five-year period and for a total dollar amount not to exceed $139,375.20 over the full ten-year period.
Background
The City of Glendale Landfill and Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) operation has three weigh scales on site to service and process over 150,000 customers annually. Two scales are set as manual use scales and the other is an unattended, radio frequency scale. These scales capture weights to be able to complete many different types of landfill and recycling transactions. Paradigm is the software used to complete the detailed transactions and to generate reports, which include information that is used for billing or provided to our state regulators, commercial customers, and internal or external auditors.
This software support services agreement provides technical and maintenance support, updates, and enhancements required in order to avoid any unnecessary down time with the weigh scale operations.
Analysis
The Landfill and MRF have been utilizing the same version of Paradigm software (Version 2) that was purchased and installed for the scale house and accounting operations in 2002. Paradigm is currently offering Version 6, which will provide a significant software upgrade. The software upgrade is covered in more depth under a separate council action, which requests approval to enter into a system implementation and license agreement with Paradi...
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