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adaptable to sedan driving modules as well as heavy truck modules. The unit will be housed at the new fire station but be available for use to all three police departments. Representatives of the Fire Department and Blaine Police traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada in January of 2006 to view two end users of the simulator; Clark County Fire and North Las Vegas Police Department. From there we continued onto Salt Lake to L-3 Headquarters where we viewed the newest models in production. The software portion of the package includes thirty-five different vehicles thus allowing more versatility and use. We do envision an ability to rent time on the simulator and thus, generate some revenue. We recommend the contract be awarded to L-3 Communications of Salt Lake City, Utah. Incident Command Simulation Software: Command Sim $60,000 Command Sim is a three-year old company that has produced and developed state of the art software for developing incident command and emergency management staff. They are a sole source vendor. Representatives of the fire department attended the largest trade show and conference specific to fire products to explore for this type of product. While there were four vendors, three were very low end pre-programmed basic simulations. Command Sim has developed a totally programmable, real time, multi-user software package currently being used by more than a half-dozen fire departments with another dozen in the process of installation. Due to its capabilities, actual structures in the communities can be utilized to develop emergency situation scenarios in which incident commanders can learn and develop better skills. Representatives of the fire department along with Blaine Emergency Manager Kerry Fenner (Police Captain) and Deputy Manager Bob Fiske (Community Standards Director) traveled to Orange County Fire Department, Florida in January of this year. We attended a day long training session in conjunction with Orange County firefighters. Orange County is one of the current users of Command Sim Software. We recommend the contract be awarded to Command Sim of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Computers: Dix Computers $42,188 This package includes a one server, ten standard PC’s, and one upgraded PC which is needed to develop the incident command scenarios. It also includes three notebooks, a firewall and a plotter. Five of the PC’s are required for the incident command simulator, the rest are for the full time office positions, part time prevention volunteers, meeting rooms, alarm room and captains office.