REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
JANUARY 4, 2017
A meeting of the Finance Committee was held on Wednesday, January 4, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
Mayor Jim Donchess, Chairman, presided.
Members of the Committee present: Alderman-at-Large Mark S. Cookson, Vice Chair
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien
Alderman Ken Siegel
Members not in Attendance: Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Benjamin M. Clemons
Also in Attendance: Mr. Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Mr. Bruce Codagnone, CIO/IT Division Director
Assistant Fire Chief Brian Rhodes, Nashua Fire Rescue
PUBLIC COMMENT - None
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract Award for (Value: $44,051)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD TWO CONTRACTS TO
TYCO INTEGRATED SECURITY AND ONE CONTRACT TO CUSTOM COMPUTER SPECIALISTS FOR A
TOTAL AWARD AMOUNT OF $44,051. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 122, INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY; PROPERTY & CASUALTY FUND; LOSS PREVENTION PROGRAM
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Siegel
| had some questions about some of the pricing here. | absolutely agree that the work has to get done but the
contract price was a little bit high. If | look at and I'll start with Tyco there is a cost of $13,028.83 for East Hollis
Street which has three doors to secure and | ended up looking up the parts and | have sources for $1,221.71
for the door controller and hardware, the transformer at $6,756 and looking at the cost difference between East
Hollis Street and the Lake Street work it’s about on the order of $1,000 per door difference between the other
hardware cost and installation. If | add all of this up | am trying to figure out where the rest of this money is
coming from because | see an item that says locksmith but | assume locksmith does work on each door and
since the total cost differential isn’t that high and then | see this $9,000 in extra cost and | just don’t know
where it came from. The quote from Tyco and I’m not blaming you guys and | understand why this is sole
sourced, we want to integrate it into our existing system but man, | just don’t get it. | understand the urgency to
get the work done because we want to protect personnel but man, I’m a little mystified about that and the Lake
Street cost. We are talking a $25,000 plus to do work in which | am looking at parts costs that are significantly
less and even if | look at a labor rate in the order of $100 to $200 per hour | still don’t get it. The next item was
the custom computer specialist and again, | look at the piece cost so the IP phones that they are quoting us at
$516.74 each, that seemed expensive and | went on-line and it’s $250 more than Metro-Line Direct, $269;
okay whatever so there is a little bit more of a mark-up but they have got cabling prices of $2,000 for cabling.
This is two fire stations, just doors and cabling. Even if they used Cat6 cable which would be overkill, that’s .50
cents per foot and you have $2,000 worth of cost here. Cat5E which is the right cable to use is .34 cents per
foot. Again, | don’t want to nickel and dime but I’m looking at these numbers and also when | see round
