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File #: 25-3639    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Consent Item Status: Passed
File created: 7/21/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 9/9/2025 Final action: 9/9/2025
Title: APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent, or designee, to execute on behalf of the Sheriff-Coroner, a purchase order with Forensic Technology, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $93,619 to provide preventive maintenance and ongoing service of forensic equipment used for processing firearm related evidence, for the period October 15, 2024 through October 14, 2026. (100% General Fund)
To: Board of Supervisors
From: David O. Livingston, Sheriff-Coroner
Report Title: Forensic Technology, Inc.
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee


RECOMMENDATIONS:
RESCIND prior board action (24-2367) from August 6, 2024, which approved and authorized the Sheriff-Coroner, or designee, to execute a contract with Forensic Technology, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $65,330 to provide preventive maintenance and service on the IBIS BrassTraxx Acquisition and IBIS Matchpoint Systems for the Office of the Sheriff Forensic Services Division, for the period October 15, 2024 through October 14, 2026; and

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent, or designee, to execute on behalf of the Sheriff-Coroner, a purchase order with Forensic Technology, Inc. to provide preventive maintenance and service on the IBIS BrassTraxx Acquisition and IBIS Matchpoint Systems for the Office of the Sheriff Forensic Services Division, in an amount not to exceed $93,619, for the period October 15, 2024 through October 14, 2026.


FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this request will result in up to $93,619 in contractual service expenditures and will be funded 100% by the General Fund.


BACKGROUND:
This Board request is to correct the prior action (24-2367), to authorize the Purchasing Agent to execute a purchase order and to update the payment limit.

Forensic Technology, Inc. (FTI) manufactures the IBIS BRASSTRAX Acquisition and IBIS MATCHPOINT systems. This equipment allows the Office of the Sheriff Forensic Services Division crime laboratory to capture images of firearms evidence and search the images in ATF's National Integrated Ballistic Identification Network (NIBIN) to determine if evidence is associated with other incidents. FTI is the only company approved to manufacture or provide service to equipment on ATF's NIBIN network. They also ensure on-going compliance with ATF and DOJ security regulations.

The Terms and Conditions include indemnificatio...

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