Agency Public Safety Dept

Contractor Advanced Public Safety

SWIFT Contract Number B54521

Project Name eCitation Adapter

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Summarize purpose of the contract, including why it was necessary: This contract was for APS to modify their MN eCitation adapter and install the modified eCitation adapter with existing customers in Minnesota and install the adapter with planned agencies.

Project Duration

Start Date Mon, 04/04/2011 - 00:00

Original end date Fri, 09/30/2011 - 00:00

Actual end date Sat, 06/30/2012 - 00:00

Did project finish on time? No

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Contract Amounts

Original contract: $42350.00

Amendments $-8500.00

Contract total $34300.00

Did project finish within budget? Yes

What was the funding source? Federal

Is this a sole source contract? Yes

If this was a single source contract, explain why the agency determined there was only a single source for the services (if applicable) APS has an electronic citation product that is already in the field, used by dozens of law enforcement agencies. The BCA entered into a contract with APS in 2010 for the purposes of piloting an adapter between APS' electronic citation product and the BCA's eCharging system, to electronically send the citations to the Court. The pilot has been successful, and the BCA now wishes to install the adapter at multiple law enforcement agencies, and make limited modificaitons to the adapter to meet additional business requirements that arose during the course of the pilot. This contract needs to besingle source as only APS can make modification to, and install, its own citation software product.

Evaluator Name Tom Miller

Evaluator Email Address thomas.c.miller@state.mn.us

Evaluate the contractor's timeliness Project took a long time. APS system architecture creates testing and deployment obstacles, with lots
of churn and regression testing to catch issues.

Evaluate the contractor's quality APS architecture results in each change to their code adding almost as many problems as are fixed, requiring a lot of retesting.

Evaluate the contractor's cost Very reasonably priced

Evaluate the contractor's overall performance Project Manager did excellent work, but nature of product makes his task very difficult. In our
experience APS installs work best when local agency has very rigorous and high quality testing procedures. We need to work with APS because of their presence in the state, but are trying to limit our risk exposure to their testing issues.

Would you engage the contractor's services again? Yes

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Please rate the overall experience with the contractor 2 - dissatisfied