Q&A
Procurement process for Securus tablet contract
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Council Member Sandy Nurse inquires about the procurement process for the Securus tablet contract. James Conroy and another representative from the Department of Correction provide details on the contract's history, value, and duration.
- Explanation of the transition from a previous tablet service provider to Securus
- Clarification that the tablet service was added as an amendment to an existing contract with Securus for phone services
- Disclosure of the contract value: $5,395,600
- Confirmation that the contract is for a one-year renewal period
Sandy Nurse
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Okay.
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Can we talk about the procurement process that the department followed for contracting with Securus for tablets?
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Can you tell us a little about that?
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Were there multiple bids received?
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How much money is the tablet contract for?
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And what is the duration to
James Conroy
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get that?
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Sure.
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So, the department had we had done an open bid for Securus back in 2014 for the phone services.
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So we had Securus as a vendor at the time.
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We were using a different vendor for tablet tablet services.
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And, as it turns out, they really weren't up to our standards.
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It wasn't working.
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They were increasing the prices on it.
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So we recognized the need to go outside of that.
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We did some market research, into other types of providers that had tablet services, what would be required, what would be the cost.
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And then, Securus who when they initially we initially, procured the tablets, they had a tablet service, but it wasn't very good.
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We recognized that Securus was not up to, you know, up to our standards as to what we were looking for.
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During the time that we had Securus as a provider for the phone services and when we recognized that the tablet service vendor that we had was not working for us at all, we were able to, look at, Securus' tablet provider and add an amendment to the contract that, provided them to give us the tablets and to give this multitude of services that is currently on the tab tablet.
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So it was ultimately an amendment to the contract.
Sandy Nurse
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Right.
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And what's the value of that contract, and how long is it for?
James Conroy
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Yeah.
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You can send me.
UNKNOWN
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Sorry.
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The value of the contract is 5,395,600.
Sandy Nurse
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I'm sorry.
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I couldn't hear that.
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I think because the microphone was
Mercedes Narcisse
0:40:43
a little bit par way.
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Sorry about that.
Sandy Nurse
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No worries.
UNKNOWN
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The con the contract value is 5,000,000,395,600.
Mercedes Narcisse
0:40:50
Okay.
James Conroy
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And that's that's for the year renewal.
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Year renewal.
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Right.
Sandy Nurse
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Correct.
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Okay.
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I have some more questions, but because we have a quorum, I want to, offer, we don't know.
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Okay.
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Sorry.
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We don't have a quorum.
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I was going to try to offer, one of our colleagues who's online to ask questions.