BPD Telecom Audit & Migration

Prior to this project starting, the City of Boulder Police Department (BPD) was part of the City of Boulder’s cellular account with Verizon. This project included the following milestones/deliverables:

• Reviewing and completing an audit of the lines of services associated to the BPD Verizon account.

• Field testing with cellular phones and adapters for CradlePoint routes in patrol vehicles to test network coverage.

• Completing reports specific to the findings of network coverage.

• Completing financial analysis on the current annual spend for Verizon cellular service and comparing this to FirstNet, built by AT&T.

• Drafting proposals to BPD executive staff on the findings and options to migrate to another service provide.

• Negotiating pricing and incentives.

• Ordering new devices for all BPD employees and scheduling each staff member to receive a new device and trade-in their old device.

• Managing the upgrade of CradlePoint devices in 50+ patrol vehicle and ensuring the new hardware integrated with the Panasonic Toughbooks and Axon Fleet cameras.

Project Highlights:

• Negotiated an in-building OneCell solution to cover 90,000 square feet of BPD headquarters with AT&T service. - $75,000 value.

• Negotiated BPD to receive a free Compact Rapid Deployable (CRD) - $77,000 value.

• Over 350 devices/users migrated to FirstNet.

Note: This project was completed by BlueGovTech CEO Kevin Marples while employed with the City of Boulder Police Department.