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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Issue The Attached Purchase Order Between Kronos Incorporated And The City Of Hollywood, For The Purchase And Implementation Of An Automated Public Safety Scheduling System And Related Services In An Amount Not To Exceed $74,430.00.
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the Attached Resolution.
Explanation:
In 2002, the Department of Fire Rescue and Beach Safety entered into an agreement with Intime Solutions, Inc. for the purchase of software and annual support services in the amount of $2,344.00 utilizing the vendor's Speedshift workforce management product software to provide Fire Rescue employee scheduling and payroll.
In late 2012, Intime Solutions, Inc. notified the Fire Department that they would no longer support the Speedshift product.
In 2013, after reviewing several products in the marketplace and soliciting written quotations, the Department of Fire Rescue and Beach Safety entered into an agreement with Intime Solutions, Inc. in the amount of $24,286.90 utilizing the vendor's Iselink software product which had replaced the Speedshift product for Fire Rescue employee scheduling and payroll and fully implemented the use of the program in August of 2014.
Since the implementation of the Iselink product Fire Rescue staff have continually experienced program platform problems, software problems and the systems overall inability to maintain a schedule without multiple changes due to the products limited flexibility.
The Iselink software's non-performance coupled with the manufacturers lack of system support has resulted in the Fire Rescue and Beach Safety Department's inability to maintain an efficient operational scheduling system.
The Department of Fire Rescue and Beach Safety staff researched the marketplace and governmental contracts for available automated public safety employee shift scheduling and payr...
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