Grand Prairie, TX Flock Contract

Who approved this?

Approved by Grand Prairie City Council on June 2, 2020.

The Grand Prairie City Council adopted Ordinance 10852-2020 on June 2, 2020, amending the fiscal year 2019 to 2020 Red Light Safety Fund in the amount of 336,265 dollars. Inside that appropriation the ordinance bought 29 license plate recognition cameras from Flock Safety for 116,000 dollars on an initial two year term through a sole source purchase agreement. It also set three optional one year renewals at 58,000 dollars a year and printed 290,000 dollars as a total. The amount shown is 116,000 dollars, the committed initial term, because the 290,000 dollar figure sits next to the optional renewals and its scope is unclear in the ordinance text. Both numbers are named here so a reader can see the gap. The remaining 220,265 dollars of the appropriation paid for other traffic safety equipment and is not part of the amount shown. The city manager may execute the renewals with aggregate price movement limited to the lesser of 50,000 dollars or 25 percent of the original maximum, and only where the council appropriates the money. Legistar records the adoption with no named roll call, and no later Flock matter appears in the Grand Prairie file, so the documented term has run out with no renewal on the record.