California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is seeking a contract for GPS and electronic monitoring services. The RFP closes on Sept. 21.
The RFP calls for a vendor that can provide a central monitoring system with an integrated database that functions 24/7 year round. The database will offer analysis and must create daily reports and notifications of each subject being tracked. The notifications can be phone calls or emails about a parolee’s activity.
All software will be based on the most up-to-date maps and needs to provide the ability to be updated with locations of interest, such as schools and churches. All convicted sexual offenders are required to wear devices and are not allowed within certain distances of points of interest.
"Current law requires global positioning satellite (GPS) monitors to be used by parolees who are sex offenders living out in the community. Some parolees who are members of criminal street gangs may also be required to wear the GPS monitors," Luis Patino, spokesperson for CDCR, wrote to Techwire in an email.
The program is aimed at tracking high-risk parolees who are more likely to re-offend. Monitoring is also used for parolees in transitional programs.
The electronic monitoring with radio frequency technology will back up or augment the GPS supervision as necessary.
The price cap for the hardware and services is $87 million, and the initial contract term is estimated to be three years, but could be amended three times for one-year extensions.
The program is estimated to begin January 2018.
