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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Issue A Purchase Order And Execute The Attached Software License Agreement Between Autoscribe Informatics And The City Of Hollywood To Furnish And Install An Upgrade To The Department Of Public Utilities Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Software In An Amount Of $47,062.00 And To Amend The Approved Fiscal Year 2017 Capital Improvement Program, As Set Forth In Exhibit A.
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Resolution
Explanation:
The City of Hollywood, Florida owns and operates a National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC) certified laboratory which operates within the Department of Public Utilities.
The responsibility of the certified laboratory is to provide continuous testing and analytical support to the Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants by performing more than 70 tests every day to monitor water quality, and more than 160 additional tests each month on drinking water samples taken throughout the City, for an overall total of more than 28,000 tests each year.
The City's certified laboratory also performs over 40 daily tests to monitor wastewater treatment plant processes and controls, and for regulatory sampling requirement, for an approximate total of over 14,600 tests annually.
In 2001 the City purchased and implemented Autoscribe Informatics System, a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), to manage analytical data from the certified laboratory and produce reports used by the Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants, and submitted to regulatory agencies.
After upgrades were offered to the Autoscribe Informatics System to the City in 2003 and again in 2009, and delayed due to technical system conflicts related to the City's Windows platform, the system upgrade continued to be on hold while the Department of Public Utilities searched for a system or upgrade that would p...
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