Waukesha IT board approves Central Square contract for new CAD system

The Waukesha City Information Technology Board voted unanimously June 4 to approve a contract with Central Square for an enterprise computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system and related mobile components, with the board instructing staff to remove a GIS consulting line from the vendor pricing before the contract goes to the Common Council on June 17.

The contract is part of a project approved in the city's 2023 capital improvement plan (CIP). Chris (project point of contact, IT staff) said the overall CIP budget for the CAD/RMS project began at $3,000,000 and that the city has received a $1,000,000 federal grant dedicated to this project. Chris also described the implementation as an 18-to-24-month effort and said the purchase requires additional server capacity and other infrastructure work.

Tom Moreau, vice president of Windborne Consulting, described the vendor selection process that led to Central Square for CAD and Axon for the records-management system. "We had six vendors respond," Moreau said, and the team conducted written evaluations followed by multi-day scripted demonstrations to produce the final…