Regional Alliance Marketplace for Procurement #232022

Los Angeles emergency alerting improvement feasibility study

The City of Los Angeles is seeking a feasibility study to strengthen emergency alerting in high-risk areas. - Buyer: City of Los Angeles — Emergency Management Department (EMD) and Mayor’s Office of Public Safety. - Requested service: One Alerting Improvement Feasibility Study. - Review current emergency-alert technology used in high-risk areas and research alternatives, including outdoor warning systems, permanent message signs, and other resilient systems. - Recommend potential technologies and assess effectiveness, possible installation locations, implementation challenges, installation costs, and ongoing maintenance costs. - Consider best practices for comparable geographic regions in routine and disaster conditions, including situations where cellular service or power is disrupted. - Address multilingual communication and the needs of people with disabilities, access, and functional needs. - OEMs and vendors: None are named; no specific products or part numbers are requested. - Stated requirement: The notice specifies a 20% GFE requirement and a 20% GFE target.

Description

The City of Los Angeles requests proposals from qualified contractors to prepare an Alerting Improvement Feasibility Study. The study must review the City’s current emergency-alert technologies in high-risk areas and research alternative technologies, including outdoor warning systems, permanent message signs, and other resilient systems that can operate during disasters when cell service or power may be disrupted. It must recommend potential technologies and address efficacy, installation locations, implementation challenges, installation and ongoing maintenance costs, and best practices for similar geographic regions. Recommendations should account for multilingual communication and the needs of people with disabilities, access, and functional needs.

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