The City of Berkeley is seeking proposals for Public Safety Technology, including ALPR, surveillance cameras, drones, video integration, and investigative software. Proposals are due by August 20, 2026. Key considerations include data security, privacy, compliance, technical capabilities, integration, and cost. Vendors must adhere to strict data ownership, privacy, and breach accountability requirements. The city reserves the right to award contracts for individual areas, combinations, or all areas.
Proposals must be received no later than 2:00 PM on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
The city will make payment to the vendor within 30 days of receipt of a correct, approved, and complete invoice.
For areas involving hardware, an all-inclusive solution includes a warranty covering the contract term.
Proposals will be scored on a 100-point scale based on data security, privacy, and compliance (30 points), technical solution and functional capabilities (30 points), integration and interoperability (10 points), implementation, training, and support (10 points), company experience and references (10 points), and cost and price (10 points).
Proposers must be qualified firms or individuals with relevant experience delivering comparable solutions to law enforcement agencies and experience with agencies subject to surveillance technology, privacy, sanctuary, or comparable oversight requirements.
The agreement shall provide for a financial penalty of $290,000 per violation for any unauthorized sharing, disclosure, or release of city data.
Incomplete proposals or proposals that do not conform to requirements will not be considered. Material exceptions to required privacy, data ownership, data sharing, security, auditability, sanctuary policy, or breach accountability provisions may be grounds for disqualification or reduced scoring.