Agenda Date: 11/18/2025
Subject:
Title
Resolution 119-2025: Authorizing an agreement with Motorola Solutions Inc. for the purchase of APX Radios and AXS Consoles
Body
From:
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager
Prepared by:
Reid Betzing, City Attorney
Presentations:
N/A
PURPOSE:
Does city council support an agreement between the City of Littleton and Motorola Solutions, Inc., for the purchase of new police radios and emergency services dispatch equipment?
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
High-Quality Governance; Safe Community
DISCUSSION:
The Littleton Police Department and its emergency dispatch services department rely upon various communication equipment to respond to and communicate during emergency calls. Those communication devices were originally purchased back in 2015 and have long passed their life cycle.
The City has been able to leverage its purchasing power through participating in the Interstate Cooperation Contract ("Co-op) that the State of Texas negotiated in DIR-CPO-5433. Co-ops are associations in which members can take advantage of rates and terms that other participating entities have been able to secure without having to begin its own negotiations with a vendor. The participation allows for participants, mainly state and local governments, to achieve more favorable pricing as a collective than they otherwise would as an individual entity.
The Motorola agreement will call for the acquisition of eight (8) new AXS consoles, including accessory equipment, software licensing and training for the City's dispatch center. Additionally, the Littleton Police Department will be acquiring 145 APX radios, which are the handheld radios our officers use, as well as 75 AP6500 radios which are the radio systems generally installed in the City's police vehicles.
BACKGROUND:
The City originally entered into a lease-purchase agreement in 2015 with Motorola for the acquisition of radio equipment. Over the course of 10 years, those radio systems have e...
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