Louisville area scanner news.
April 8, 2008
Thunder Over Louisville Less Then One Week Away
Thunder is coming up this Saturday. Weather you plan to watch the action from the front row down on the river or enjoy it from the best seat in the house (your own) be sure not to miss out on all the scanning fun.Here is a list of the Police, Fire, EMS and Aviation frequencies to monitor.
In addaiton to the regular Standaford Field, Bowman and Clark freqs, also check out:
- 132.3200 Air Boss
- 142.3500 KY Air National Guard
- 123.1500 Aeroshell / Lima Lima Flight Team
- 123.4250 Lima Lima Flight Team
- 123.5000 Lima Lima Flight Team
- 123.4500 Aeroshell Aerobatic Team
- 122.9250 Swift Magic Aerobatic Team
- 122.7750 Swift Magic Aerobatic Team
- 122.7250 Red Baron Squadron
- 122.7750 Red Baron Squadron
- 123.1500 Red Baron Squadron
- 132.9500 Heritage Flight - F15, F16 & P51
- 268.1000 KY Air National Guard 123rd Airlift Wing
- 306.2000 ????????
- 123.1750 ????????
- 381.8000 ????????
- 132.3125 ????????
- 327.0000 ????????
- 381.6500 ????????
- 271.2000 ????????
- 275.8000 ????????
Here are the public safety frequencies to monitor.
- 460.5750 Louisville fire F-2
- 453.7375 Metro Corrections
- 463.1250 Metro EMS Unit-to-Unit
- 462.9500 Metro EMS Urban Dispatch
- 453.0250 Metro EMS OPS
- 453.0750 Metro EMS OPS
- 453.1250 Metro EMS OPS
- 453.1750 Metro EMS OPS
- 463.0000 Metro EMS Simplex-1 Ops
- 463.0250 Metro EMS Simplex-2 Ops
- 458.0250 Metro EMS Simplex-3 Supervisors
- 460.4750 LMPD F-4 Moto-bridge
- 460.2250 LMPD F-5 Car-to-Car / TAC / SWAT / Special events
- 453.5750 LMPD F-7 Dispatch / Car-to-Car
- 453.4000 Jefferson Co. Sheriff
- 458.3375 Jefferson Co. Sheriff
- 460.2000 Jefferson Co. Sheriff
- 156.1875 Clark Co. EMS
- 154.1450 Clark Co. Fireground
- 154.2050 Clark Co. Fireground
- 453.1500 Clarksville Police
- 154.2800 IN Statewide Fire Mutual Aid
- 154.3550 Jeffersonville & Clarksville Fireground
- 854.6125 Jeffersonville Police
- 858.0375 Jeffersonville Police
- 154.6650 KSP Mobile Extenders
- 153.9200 KSP Tac- 1 TAC OPS/ Portable Repeater
- 154.9200 KSP Tac- 2 Portable Repeater
- 453.3000 KSP Tac- 3 Car-to-Car/ Air-to-Ground (P-25)
- 155.3700 KSP CH14 Tactical - Inter-city Mutual Aid
- 155.4750 KSP CH15 KLEEN
- 472.0000 KSP SWAT Statewide (P-25)
- 460.2500 KSP Air-to-Ground (P-25)
- 163.2000 US Marshals
- 163.8375 FBI Louisville
- 418.7500 DEA
- 139.2150 KY National Guard (P-25)
- 142.3500 KY National Guard
- 139.2500 KY National Guard
- 139.3500 KY National Guard
- 148.7500 KY National Guard
- 42.40000 ISP F-2 Special Ops
- 42.12000 ISP Car-to-Car
- 42.16000 ISP Tactical / Aircraft
- 155.4450 ISP Mobile Extenders
- 156.8000 Marine CH16 Calling & Distress
- 157.0500 Marine CH21 Coast Guard
- 157.1500 Marine CH23 Coast Guard
- 157.1750 Marine CH83 Coast Guard
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January 8, 2008
Radio system faces final step
Setup will link police, fire, EMS
By Dan Klepal
dklepal@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
Metro Louisville is about to take its final step in developing a $70 million digital communications system meant to bring all its emergency responders under one umbrella.
Construction of three towers, ranging in height from 200 to 500 feet, will begin in April.
By summer 2009, MetroSafe's radio system will allow unlimited communication channels for police, firefighters, paramedics, and nonemergency metro government employees.
Better communication can help police catch criminals, keep firefighters from getting lost in smoky buildings and keep patients alive while being transported to a hospital, first responders say.
The system's radio antennas, microwaves and electronic equipment are now being assembled and tested by Motorola, the city's vendor.
That equipment should begin arriving in Louisville for assembly in late March, said Public Works Director Ted Pullen.
"You don't see it yet, but there's a lot going on, and we are dead on schedule," Pullen said.
The new towers will join nine existing towers that are scheduled for upgrading.
In addition, the former Federal Reserve Bank at 410 S. Fifth Street is being prepared to become the new emergency communications center.
All of that work is part of a $22.8 million contract with Motorola, signed last May.
Paul Barth, fire chief of the McMahan Fire Protection District and president of the Jefferson County Fire Chief's Association, said MetroSafe is important because it will allow firefighters to talk with police and Emergency Medical Services personnel. It will also allow suburban firefighters to communicate with metro Louisville firefighters.
"The towers are kind of like the final part, next to putting the radio in our hands," he said. "It's taken some time to get there. But we've all been very patient because we know it'll be a top-of-the-line system."
The first phase started in fall 2005, creating a combined dispatch and call-taking center on Barret Avenue.
The second phase of the project, completed in June 2006, built a unified computer system, allowing dispatchers to talk with all first-responding agencies. It also allows agencies to talk with one another through a "bridge" that is effective, if inefficient.
Barth called those steps "Band-Aids" that still allow for the loss of valuable seconds during an emergency.
The current phase will expand the radio frequency coverage, provide greater clarity and bring nearly unlimited, instantaneous communication between agencies.
MetroSafe Director Doug Hamilton has said the system will save lives by reducing response times and providing consistently clear and uninterrupted talk between users.
But a new radio system won't solve all the problems, said Craig Willman, president of the Louisville Professional Firefighters Union, Local 345.
He said there aren't enough dispatchers, which forces them to work "gross" amounts of overtime.
"While it's exciting to see new things being physically built, I'm more concerned about the inner workings of the people running dispatch," Willman said. "Physical projects aren't the true measure of how these things work."
Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson included $22 million in this year's budget to pay for this third phase of the project.
Motorola was selected as the vendor during a bidding process that culminated in May. The bids were evaluated by a team of department heads led by independent adviser Roger Schipke, a retired senior vice president at General Electric.
Schipke said Motorola will give first responders a state-of-the-art system that will "significantly improve their ability to meet any emergency."
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September 24, 2007
$1.58 million grant will advance MetroSafe
Information system under construction
By Dan Klepal
dklepal@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
Louisville Metro government has been awarded a $1.58 million homeland security grant that will help it continue building its digital MetroSafe emergency communication system.
Portions of MetroSafe have already been built. A $22.8 million contract was awarded in May to Motorola for the system's backbone -- six new communication towers and the computer and microwave equipment to tie it all together.
When completed, the system will allow unhindered communication between first responders all over Jefferson County, as well as with other public safety officials who may come into the county because of an emergency.
The system also will allow photos, diagrams, video and medical records to be transmitted directly to police cruisers, ambulances and fire trucks.
The grant amount "meshes with our expectations," said Allison Martin, a spokeswoman for Mayor Jerry Abramson. "Kentucky has seen a reduction in homeland security funding, and we knew there is stiff competition for fewer dollars."
The state received slightly more than $11 million -- but had submitted 200 grant applications asking for a total of $74 million in federal homeland security funding.
Metro Louisville requested $3.6 million. It received $1.08 million for communications infrastructure and another $500,000 for MetroSafe to help offset the end of Urban Area Security Initiative funding from the Department of Homeland Security.
MetroSafe Director Doug Hamilton said all of the $1.58 million will be used for the Motorola contract. He said the company is in the process of determining sites for the towers and seeking land-use approval.
"We are on schedule," Hamilton said.
Motorola is currently building the third phase of MetroSafe; it should be completed in about 24 months. The first two phases cost a total of $35 million.
The last phase is buying the radios that emergency responders will use in the field.
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May 28, 2007
MetroSafe taking step forward,
Communication system contract will be signed
By Dan Klepal
dklepal@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
It will be the largest investment in public safety since the Louisville and Jefferson County governments merged in 2003.
The city is about to sign a $22.8 million contract with Motorola to build the backbone of a digital communication system, known as MetroSafe, that will allow firefighters, police and paramedics to communicate easily.
And it will do more:
Police can have mug shots or video transmitted to their cruisers.
Firefighters can scan building plans before entering a burning structure.
Paramedics can review medical records while rushing a patient to the hospital.
The entire project will cost over $71 million, with construction on the communication towers to begin in July and take 18 to 24 months.
The city managed to dramatically cut the cost of the system's backbone after receiving only one bid for it last year: $59 million, from Motorola. City officials rewrote the specifications, and a new round of bidding brought proposals from two companies, with MA-Com's bid $69,295 lower than Motorola's.
The earlier cost estimate prompted some on the Metro Council to question whether costs for the project could be controlled.
For Paul Barth, of the Jefferson County Fire Chiefs Association, it is a worthy investment.
Just a few years ago suburban fire departments couldn't communicate at all with Louisville firefighters, he said. "Now we can talk to them, but it's not instantaneous," Barth said. "With MetroSafe, it will be instantaneous. Seconds count in an emergency, so that's what we need."
This contract adds to the $35 million spent on the first two phases of the project.
The final phase will involve buying radios and video-display terminals for emergency vehicles -- between 4,000 and 5,000 units, estimated in 2004 to cost $15 million.
In the latest contract, the $22.8 million will buy six new communication towers, along with the computer and microwave equipment necessary to tie it all together. It's the most expensive and technically challenging aspect of the project.
The new system replaces a hodgepodge of equipment that often provides poor reception and confounds efforts of city and suburban agencies to speak with each other. The original system was built in 1970.
MetroSafe Director Doug Hamilton said the investment is crucial, yet nearly invisible to most people. "It's not something you can point to like a museum, or arena," he said. "... But we know this is as important as all those tourist attractions because they can't exist if people don't feel safe and secure in the community."
Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson has made a new communication system the priority of his administration since taking office in 2003.
The original cost estimate was $50 million, but that has grown to $71 million today -- a figure likely to be exceeded after purchase of the radios. But whatever the final amount is, it will be far less than officials feared in October.
Motorola's original $59 million bid was nearly double the maximum officials expected to pay, and caused them to rewrite the specifications.
The new specifications said companies would have to build the towers on government-owned land, that the city would develop those sites and that the companies could design the system any way they wanted as long as 95 percent of the county was covered. That brought costs down, Hamilton said.
Still, the growing cost has opened the door for political criticism, particularly from Metro Council member Kelly Downard, who was Abramson's opponent for mayor last year.
Downard, R-16th District, has called the MetroSafe process "awful."
"I'm encouraged that it's no longer going to cost $100 million, but I'm discouraged because we seem to get a different number all the time," Downard said. "I will need to see, on the ground level from the users, whether this thing works."
The two bids were evaluated by a team of 10 city officials, who were led by Roger Schipke, a former vice president at General Electric. After a months-long process, Motorola was the unanimous choice.
"Both companies could have done it," Schipke said. "Both bids were very competitive. Motorola's coverage looked a little stronger. Motorola had a slight edge on price and a slight edge on the technology. The two things working together got Motorola the job."
Abramson called the project the "most important" his office has worked on in the past four years. He added that the decision to reject the first Motorola bid and recast the specifications was difficult because it was uncertain whether a new round of bids would produce a lower price.
"I think we've done this right," he said. "I feel really good about it for our hometown."
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April 3, 2007
Emergency radio 2 years from big leap
Louisville close to picking company for construction
By Dan Klepal
dklepal@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
In two years or less, emergency communications in metro Louisville will make a technological leap that will be like moving from a transistor radio to an iPod.
City officials are close to picking a company to build the $30 million backbone of a digital communications network that will allow firefighters, police and paramedics to communicate directly in all types of emergencies.
"We've been operating on the same radio system since 1970 … to manage 635,000 incidents a year," said Doug Hamilton, director of MetroSafe, the dispatch agency. "And an 'incident' may take one firefighter, or every damn one you got."
MetroSafe's digital communication system will allow police cruisers, fire engines and ambulances directly to receive data -- anything from mug shots to building plans to medical records.
It's the type of information that helps police catch criminals, keeps firefighters from getting lost in smoky buildings and saves patients being transported to a hospital.
The construction that will take place soon is the most complex, expensive and technically challenging phase of a 4-year-old project that also has moved emergency dispatchers for different agencies into the same building and onto the same computer system.
Along the way, however, there have been delays and escalating costs for a system whose final price tag still remains unknown.
The estimate of $50 million in 2003 has grown to $70 million today. But it is uncertain because the most expensive part of the project is now being negotiated, and 3,700 radios for the system will still have to be purchased.
Unknown costs have caused criticism of the project's management.
"The procurement process has been awful," said Metro Council member Kelly Downard, R-16th District, who ran against Mayor Jerry Abramson for mayor last year. "Now, five years later, we still have no idea of what it's going to cost. Nobody does that but government."
Two companies, M/A-COM and Motorola, bid in October on providing the infrastructure after city officials revised the specifications -- a decision that delayed the project by several months, but may save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.
A team of experts evaluated those bids, resulting in a recommendation last week to negotiate exclusively with one of the companies.
Abramson's office is keeping the recommendation secret, along with the exact amount of the bids, until the city has a signed contract. But Abramson did say both bids are in the neighborhood of the budgeted $30 million.
The city has $22.8 million in the bank for the work, including $8.2 million in federal cash and $12 million from a local bond issue. Officials will continue applying for homeland security grants, but much of the remaining cost will be paid with local tax dollars.
A massive amount of work remains: Construction of 13 communication towers -- each 400 to 700 feet high -- along with wiring computer and microwave equipment to link the system and ensure that first responders can talk to one another in the farthest corners of Jefferson County.
It will take 18 months to two years to finish the job.
The new system will allow free communication between metro public-safety agencies and 18 suburban fire departments.
And it will be large enough to incorporate communication between other metro departments, such as sanitation, parks and recreation, which might have to respond to a natural disaster.
Agencies can talk to each other now, but only after being bridged together by dispatchers, which adds seconds to every call.
And the current system has limitations: It can handle no more than 28 one-way radio conversations at a time, which often results in police or fire supervisors requesting that the channel be "cleared," a polite way of telling people talking on that channel to shut up.
Craig Willman, president of the union representing Metro Louisville firefighters, said they are looking forward to improved communications within the department.
"Our big concern is talking among ourselves," he said. "When we go into basements or large malls, we do not have ability to get (a radio signal) out. We've got to use runners or we've got to use a cell phone."
Downard said: "Building a communication system with all first responders is an excellent objective. But we're going on now our fifth year, and there has been delay after delay."
Abramson spokesman Chad Carlton said the original $50 million estimate was a "ballpark figure," made with Abramson's first budget under merged government in 2003, and before the city had even written specifications for the system.
"The costs have fluctuated over that time," Carlton said. "We're in a changing technological environment, in a field with very little competition."
Metro government already has spent $15.1 million fixing the dispatch system.
In October, officials had to revise the specifications for the infrastructure after only one company -- Motorola -- responded to their initial solicitation. That bid was $59 million, roughly double the budgeted amount.
They got two bids the next time around. Abramson then tapped Roger Schipke, a former vice president at General Electric, to lead a process of evaluating those bids.
Schipke said he accepted the job because of the project's importance.
"It literally cuts across everything in the city," he said. "Basically, if you get into a flood, tornado or terrorist attack, every aspect of city government has to get involved. And there's only one communication system."
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March 1, 2007
President Bush to visit Louisville on Friday March 2
President Bush will be visiting Louisville Friday March 2 and will be here for most of the day.During his visit you may want to monitor the Louisville International Airport control frequencies to hear Air Force One as it lands and takes off as well as the secret service and Louisville andstate police.
Here are the Secret Service frequencies.They may or may not be encrypted.The most active frequencies used before and during a presidential or vice presidential visit are Baker, Charlie, Mike, and Tango, as well as any channel designated for use by the WHCA. The frequency used most as a nationwide primary repeater channel is Charlie, followed by Baker.
Alpha 32.2300 WHCA-Transportation (vans) (possible DC base)
Baker 165.7875 USSS-Field Offices, President/VP/VIP security
Charlie 165.3750 USSS-Field Offices/Protection, command post coordination (Nationwide Primary)
Delta 169.9250 WHCA-Marine Security Detachment, vans
Echo 407.8500 WHCA-SAM Uplink (Air Force 1 phone patch ground uplink)
Foxtrot 415.7000 WHCA-SAM Downlink (Air Force 1 phone patch aircraft downlink)
Golf 166.4000 USSS-Field Offices
165.7625 Input to 165.3750 repeaters
Hotel 167.9000 WHCA-V.P. Staff/White House Garage
165.6875
166.2125 President/VP Security
India 407.9250 USSS-Headquarters (Treasury Security Force)
166.2000
Juliet 170.0000 USSS-Paging/Camp David
Kilo 167.8250 Duplex Phone-Pres Res/LBJ, WHCA
Lima 168.7875 Duplex Phone-Pres Res/LBJ, WHCA (voice scramblers)
Lavender 418.1250 WHCA-Transportation
Mike 165.2125 USSS-Dignitary/Former Pres Protection, Counterfeit Division
November 166.7000 WHCA-White House Staff
Oscar 164.8875 USSS-Presidential Protection Division (PPD), WHCA
Papa 164.4000 USSS-Field Offices/Protection, input to 165.2125 repeaters
Quebec ---
Romeo 166.4000 Input to 165.7875 repeaters
164.4000 USSS-Repeater Outputs
Sierra 166.5125 WHCA-White House Staff
Tango 164.6500 USSS-Field Offices/Protection, Presidential/VP Security
Uniform 361.6000 AF-1 Communications
165.0875
Victor 164.1000 WHCA, Presidential/VP Protection
Whiskey 167.0250 WHCA-Paging
X-ray ******** SEE BELOW
Yankee 162.6875 WHCA-Presidential phone uplink or downlink
Zulu 171.2875 WHCA-Presidential phone downlink or uplink
X-ray is the reserve frequency pool and is not Treasury Common. Frequencies here are used whenever a new frequency is needed.
X-ray frequencies
164.7500
164.8000
165.2625
165.3375
165.4125
165.5125
165.6500
165.6875
165.8500
165.9000
166.0500
166.2000
166.5625
166.5875
166.6375
166.8000
167.9000
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January 14, 2007
City's loss of federal grant won't stop MetroSafe
By Joseph Gerth
jgerth@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
A federal decision to cut Louisville out of a Homeland Security grant program will not slow efforts to build a $70 million emergency communications system, the mayor's office said yesterday.
"This won't affect our ability to finish MetroSafe," said Chad Carlton, a spokesman for Mayor Jerry Abramson. In fact, the city was told last year that it probably would not get money this year.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has said Louisville is one of four cities dropped from those eligible for funding from the Urban Area Security Initiative program, which has sent $22 million to Louisville in the past four years.
The city was excluded because federal authorities changed the criteria for determining terror risks, and Louisville did not rank as high as other cities, said MetroSafe Director Doug Hamilton.
The city is trying to determine where it fell short, he said.
About $15 million of the money the city has received in the grants has gone to MetroSafe. City officials have said it will let all agencies that would respond in the event of a terror strike or natural disaster communicate over one radio system.
Because the old Louisville and Jefferson County police were on different communications systems, it's difficult for urban officers to talk with suburban officers.
The other cities excluded were Omaha, Neb.; Toledo, Ohio; and Baton Rouge, La. The program is designed to funnel money to metropolitan areas at risk of being terror targets.
Hamilton said the city will be "plastering Washington" with grant applications to other federal agencies in hopes of capturing additional federal funds.
If the city isn't successful, Carlton said the rest of the money for MetroSafe would come from bonds and federal funding that passes through the state's Department of Homeland Security.
Hamilton said the city has raised $45 million of the system's cost.
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October 31, 2006
Mayor Names Veteran GE Executive to Lead MetroSafe Contract Selection Team
LOUISVILLE (October 30, 2006) – Mayor Jerry Abramson today named Roger Schipke, a longtime senior vice president of General Electric who oversaw worldwide appliance operations, to lead Louisville Metro’s efforts to review, select and negotiate a multi-million dollar contract for the next phase of the MetroSafe emergency-communications network.
Schipke (pronounced SHIP-kee), a Louisville resident who oversaw a $500 million annual capital budget at GE, will lead a project team of Louisville Metro Government employees that will evaluate the bids for a new radio transmission network that will improve communications for more than 3,700 police, fire, EMS and other emergency responders.
The project team also includes:
Doug Hamilton, director, Emergency Management Agency / MetroSafe
Ted Pullen, project manager, General Service Administration
Craig Bowen, director, Purchasing Department
“Roger is a well-respected business leader with vast experience overseeing the selection and implementation of multi-million dollar investments at GE,” Abramson said. “We are fortunate to add his expertise to a strong project team that will help make our community a safer place to live.”
Abramson said he sought Schipke’s expertise because of the complexity of the MetroSafe project, the significant amount of public dollars invested, and the impact of the project on Louisville’s future grants and allocation of other state and federal funding.
“MetroSafe is perhaps the most costly and complex investment that we have ever made as a government,” Abramson said. “I want to make sure we do it right the first time.”
The first phase of MetroSafe, completed in September 2005, created a single communications center at 768 Barret Ave., bringing together 911 call takers and police, fire and EMS dispatchers that previously operated from four different locations with four different systems. The second phase, completed in June 2006, put all dispatchers on the same computer system for the first time, allowing better emergency coordination and improving response times by eliminating call transfers.
The third phase of MetroSafe includes a state-of-the-art radio transmission system and new communications center at the site of the former Federal Reserve Building downtown.
Two companies submitted bids for MetroSafe Phase III. The project team will review and evaluate the bids, make recommendations to Mayor Abramson, help negotiate a contract with the selected company and oversee implementation of the project. The selection process is expected to be completed early next year.
Schipke’s background
After more than 30 years at GE, Schipke headed two Fortune 500 companies as chairman and CEO – Sunbeam Corp. and the Ryland Group. Schipke is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and has served on boards of several New York Stock Exchange Companies.
Currently, Schipke is an executive-in-residence at the University of Louisville and a frequent speaker at business schools across the country, including Harvard University and the University of Kentucky.
Schipke will serve as an independent consultant and will be paid a fee not to exceed $3,000 a month.
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October 17, 2006
2 bidders seeking MetroSafe work
Competition may trim communication system cost
By Joseph Gerth
The Courier-Journal
Two companies are bidding to install the next phase of Louisville metro government's planned emergency communication system, raising hopes that the price will be more in line with what city officials had expected.
The city opened two bids Tuesday -- one each from M/A-COM and Motorola. The companies are the two largest providers of emergency communication systems.
Construction of the MetroSafe system is months behind because the city rejected the only bid it received in May for the third phase of the project. That's when Motor- ola's bid came in at $59 million, nearly twice the expected $30 million cost.
Until then, city officials had estimated the entire cost of the MetroSafe project to be $71 million.
After rejecting Motorola's bid, the city rewrote the bid specifications in hopes that a new round of bids would bring additional bidders and lower prices.
This phase will entail the most work to date on the project and will include outfitting the city's primary emergency communication center in the old U.S. Federal Reserve Bank building and constructing transmission towers throughout Jefferson County.
Emergency Management Director Doug Hamilton said the city would not release the cost of the bids until they are evaluated, which is expected to take several months.
He said releasing the bids now could give a false sense that the project would be less expensive than it will actually be.
Hamilton said he expects a base bid from the companies and then additional upgrades that would cost the city more if they opt to buy them.
Also, he noted that the price isn't the primary concern when evaluating the bids.
According to the request for bids sent out by the city in August, the price of the system accounts for only 40 percent of the evaluated score.
M/A-COM had declined to bid on the project earlier because it was only then developing the equipment that city officials demanded.
The company urged the city to allow alternative technology at the time, saying that because only Motorola could bid on the project, the city would likely get a higher bid than was necessary.
Motorola said its May bid of $59 million was competitive based on the specifications of the system that Louisville was planning.
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