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File #: 2023-2187    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 11/17/2023 In control: Committee on Innovation, Performance, Asset Management, and Technology
On agenda: 11/20/2023 Final action: 12/5/2023
Enactment date: 12/5/2023 Enactment #: 810
Effective date: 12/7/2023    
Title: Resolution amending Resolution 643 of 2020, authorizing the Department of Innovation and Performance to enter into a Contract or Contracts with Catalis Public Works & Citizen Engagement, LLC, and/or its division, Qscend Technologies, Inc., for the purchase of Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software services necessary for the operations of the City's 311 Response Line by increasing the approved amount by $59,650.97 for an amended total cost not-to-exceed $554,782.87 (Five Hundred Fifty Four Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty Two Dollars and Eighty Seven Cents) over nine years.
Indexes: CONTRACTS (AMENDING)
Attachments: 1. 2023-2187 Cover Letter-Catalis QScend legislation letter - signed, 2. 2023-2187-QScend Catalis waiver of competitive process - signed, 3. Summary 2023-2187
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Resolution amending Resolution 643 of 2020, authorizing the Department of Innovation and Performance to enter into a Contract or Contracts with Catalis Public Works & Citizen Engagement, LLC, and/or its division, Qscend Technologies, Inc., for the purchase of Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software services necessary for the operations of the City's 311 Response Line by increasing the approved amount by $59,650.97 for an amended total cost not-to-exceed $554,782.87 (Five Hundred Fifty Four Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty Two Dollars and Eighty Seven Cents) over nine years.

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WHEREAS, the City has previously entered into a Professional Services Agreement, as amended (the "Agreement") with QScend Technologies, Inc., ("Qscend"); and

WHEREAS, Qscend has been acquired by Catalis Public Works & Citizen Engagement, LLC ("Catalis"), and the City now wishes to extend the Agreement with Qscend, as a division of Catalis;


Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Resolution 643 of 2020, "authorizing the Department of Innovation and Performance to enter into a Contract or Contracts with Qscend Technologies, Inc. for the purchase of Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software services necessary for the operations of the City's 311 Response Line by extending the term for three additional years and by increasing the authorized spending amount by One Hundred Seventy-Three Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty-Eight Dollars and Eighty-Five Cents ($173,938.85)" is hereby amended as follows:

Section 1. The Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation and Performance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are hereby authorized to enter into a Contract or Contracts and amendments thereto with Catalis Public Works & Citizen Engagement, LLC, and/or its division Qscend Technologies, Inc. in a form approved by the City Solicitor, for the purpose of purchasing Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software services necessa...

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