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Attachment B PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE COMPUTING CORPORATION AND THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH 'It/1 THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of this L day of January. 2005, by and between the CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, a Municipal Corporation ("City"), and KNOWLEDGE COMPUTING CORPORATION, an Arizona State corporation, whose principal place of business is 6601 East Grant Road, Tucson, AZ 85715 ("Contractor"), and is made with reference to the following: RECITALS A. City is a municipal corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of California with the power to carry on its business as it is now being conducted under the statutes of the State of California and the Charter of City. B. Effective January 23, 2004, the City was designated as the lead agency and grant administrator for the monies allocated by the federal government for the Orange County Integrated Law and Justice Project (OCILJ), a Countywide . effort and multi-phase project to integrate the diverse information systems of all criminal justice agencies in the County, pursuant to a COPS MORE grant. These grant monies are held by City on behalf of the OCILJ Steering Committee. The OCILJ Steering Committee, chaired by Chief of Police Bob McDonell of Newport Beach, makes decisions on how these funds are distributed. C. The OCILJ Project Steering Committee seeks to procure services from a responsible vendor to provide a technical and operational solution to enable the Justice agencies in the County to share information with each other from their records management systems and related databases, and to provide a set of tools that can be used to analyze the data in those systems across jurisdictional boundaries. This particular and critical phase of the OCILJ Project is known as the "RMS/CMS Information Sharing Project," and is being undertaken by the City of Newport Beach on behalf of the justice agencies in Orange County, California. D. The funds currently allocated under the COPS Office grant are insufficient to implement the entire OCILJ Project and complete the RMS/CMS Information Sharing Project phase. Santa Ana and Anaheim have received a grant entitled "FY04 Urban Area Security Initiative" (UASI grant) from the Federal Department of Homeland Security, Office of Domestic Preparedness, through the State of California, Office of Homeland Security, to enhance Countywide emergency preparedness. The OCILJ Project, especially the portion related to data sharing among agencies within the County, will substantially enhance homeland security by significantly improving the accessibility and speed of transfer of criminal justice