DEPARTMENT: Aviation
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Russell J. Handy
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Amendment to Agreement with Telos Identity Management Solutions LLC for the San Antonio Airport System
SUMMARY:
This Ordinance authorizes an amendment to the professional services agreement with Telos Identity Management Solutions LLC dba Telos ID to increase the contract value in the amount of $506,621.32 and extend the contract term to April 12, 2024. The San Antonio Airport System uses Telos ID for its designated aviation channeling (DAC) services, a software system used to perform fingerprint-based criminal history records checks and security threat assessments for prospective and current ID badge-holders. This amendment will allow Telos ID to continue as the DAC for the Airport System and align its contract term with the Identity Manager System (IMS) that will begin operation in 2019.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Airport System is working to streamline and automate the management of airport staff's IDs (badges) and end-to-end credentialing, auditing and reporting rather than utilizing separate systems that are not integrated through an Identity Manager System, referred to as IMS. A component vital to the IMS system is the Designated Aviation Channeling, also referred to as DAC, service provider. Currently, Telos ID serves as the DAC for the Airport System through a contract approved on November 21, 2013.
In 2016, Aviation and ITSD, developed and released a solicitation for IMS services that identified Telos ID as the required DAC for all proposals to use as part of their IMS system. The City received proposals from the only three authorized vendors in the United in December 2016. Furthermore, Convergint Technologies was awarded the contract for Identity Manager System (IMS) vendor in March 2018.
As staff prepared the IMS system to become operational in 2019, it was recognized that the professional services agreement with Telos ID would exp...
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