📋 Tender Overview
Project : ITC-002-16
Project Description :The 2024 request is to add capital funds to 2033 and pull 2025 and 2026 funding ahead to 2024. This capital project is fully funded from the dedicated Radio Reserve Fund 198 ( Radio Reserve ). The Radio Reserve is fully funded by annual contributions from operating departments and agencies who use the corporate radio system. City Finance created a projection model for Radio Reserve Fund 198 ( Radio Reserve ) in 2015, and that projection model is reviewed annually to ensure sufficient funding. The corporate radio system is used by Windsor Police Services, Windsor Fire & Rescue Services, Transit Windsor, various operating departments within the Corporation of the City of Windsor, YQG Airport, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), and is currently being expanded into the Town of Amherstburg to be used by emergency services and operating departments. The capital funds are required for system upgrades of infrastructure, end user devices and other equipment not covered under the service agreement with the system vendor. Reserve Fund 198 anticipated and is sufficiently funded for these capital expenditures. Capital Project ITC-002-16 ( Corporate Radio Infrastructure ), and the 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026 funding requirements, were approved in principle during the 2016 capital budgeting process. This is a corporate-wide project, with many City departments and agencies relying on the corporate radio system. This capital project, ITC-002-16 ( Corporate Radio Infrastructure ), has a dedicated funding source, which is Reserve Fund 198 ( Radio Reserve ). Radio Reserve Fund 198 was created in 2015, through City Council Resolution CR209/2015, to establish a sustainable funding mechanism for the corporate radio system. The City of Windsor Finance Department projected operating and capital requirements from this reserve, through 2033, when establishing Reserve Fund 198 in 2015. The amounts reflected in ITC-002-16 match the capital requirements identified in the reserve fund projection, and as such, have sufficient funding from Reserve Fund 198. In 2023, City Council approved the expansion of the corporate radio system to the Town of Amherstburg. As part of that strategy, 2023 capital funds were used with the understanding that capital funding slated for 2025 and 2026 would be pulled ahead to 2024 to provide sufficient funding for other City of Windsor corporate radio project (replacement mobile radios for WFRS/WPS, portable radio solutions for City operating departments, and required system backhaul upgrades). Additionally, when the Reserve Fund 198 ( Radio Reserve ) projection model was created in 2015 (and reviewed annually since), $6.5 million was planned for 2033 for system lifecycle upgrades (radios and infrastructure not covered under the service agreement with the system vendor. This capital project is fully funded from the dedicated Radio Reserve Fund 198 ( Radio Reserve ). The Radio Reserve is fully funded b
