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..Cabarrus County Sheriff's Department -- ~ '~ Robert M. Canaday, Sheriff From: Date: Sllbj act: Memorandum Jeff Barnhardt, Interim County Manager Sheriff Robert M. Canaday ~V~ September 11, 1995 Acceptance of Bid for the 40 Channel Digital Recorder As you are familiar, the Sheriff's Department opened sealed bids for a 40 channel Digital Recorder on 08/24/95. Six bids were opened and read on this day. The lowest of the six bids was from Tekton, Inc. Tekton proposed a Racal Wordnet, made in England, at a total cost of $30,945.00, but upon close review of the bid there were two inconsistencies with Tekton's bid. The first problem was that Tekton did not include a total cost of tapes in the bid price as requested in the Bid Specifications. This increased the total bid price for Tekton to $32,345.00. The second problem was that Tekton could not provide a list of users for this quoted system as required by the Bid Specifications on page 9, under the header of Evaluation. Tekton was contacted and was provided a second opportunity to provide a list of three references, but Tekton stated that the proposed system is new and not in operation anywhere in the United States and for that matter, anywhere in the world. Racal has sold several systems, but none are currently being used. Due to Tekton not meeting the specification on page 9 of the bid package, I feel that their bid should not be considered and the next lowest bid should be accepted. I do not like the idea of buying a system from Tekton that has only been on the open market for less that 8 weeks and has no references to properly evaluate the functionality and dependability of the recorder. The next lowest bid would be Communication Systems, Inc (CSI), which is made in the USA. CSI completely met all bid specifications and have currently over one hundred references. P.O. BOX 525 85 UNION STREET SOUTH, CONCORD, N. C. 28025 PHONE (704) 788-3108 ORI NC0130000