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Friday, December 11, 2015
First Judicial District
Question and Answers regarding the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Stout Center for Criminal Justice ('SCJC') Open-Standard Closed Circuit Television Video Management System ("CCTV System"). Please note that the deadline for the RFP has been extended to Thursday, December 17, 2015, 3:00 p.m. Documents are in Adobe PDF Format

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Thursday, December 10, 2015
First Judicial District
Request for Proposal (RFP) for Electronic Tracking Services and Equipment. Documents are in Adobe PDF Format

Wednesday, December 09, 2015
Court of Common Pleas
Notice - RE: Update to the President Judge Inactive Attorney List: arey Elizabeth Grace Galvin Removed: 12/7/2015, Deborah Flynn Removed: 12/7/2015, Ahmer Hussain Sheriff Removed: 12/7/2015

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Notice - RE: Update to the President Judge Inactive Attorney List: Michael Patrick Williams Removed: 12/1/2015, James E. Murphy Removed: 12/1/2015, Jill Baratz Clarke Removed: 12/1/2015, Michael Philip Decktor Removed: 12/4/2015, Timothy Joel Zuercher Removed: 12/4/2015.

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View the Judicial Schedules for the week of December 06, 2015. Documents are in Adobe PDF Format

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Court of Common Pleas, Orphans' Court Division
Notice to the Bar - RE: Orphans' Court 2016 Audit List Calendar Documents are in Adobe PDF Format

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Court of Common Pleas
Notice - RE: Update to the President Judge Inactive Attorney List: Benjamin Jozef deGroot Removed: 11/23/2015, Mark McKelvie Lee Removed: 11/25/2015

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Request for Proposals (RFP)

Electronic Tracking Services and Equipment,Documents are in Adobe PDF Format
The First Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ("FJD") supervises approximately 50,000 offenders who have been released to the community by the courts on probation, parole, or pretrial supervision. The FJD is issuing this Request for Proposals to seek one or two Vendors to provide electronic tracking services and equipment for RF, GPS, and alcohol monitoring systems to monitor and/or track offenders that have varied supervision requirements under the FJD's authority. Currently, the FJD utilizes approximately 600 RF units (landline) to support the above programs on a daily basis. The selected Vendor(s) must work in collaboration with the FJD under the current vendor contract for electronic monitoring throughout the transition phase from the current system to the new system. The FJD will require a minimum of 600 wireless and/or GPS units and as many as 1,500 wireless and/or GPS units. The FJD will require 50-100 landline units for use when cellular technology is unavailable in certain geographic locations. The FJD will require the new system to be able to monitor an alcohol monitoring system with units to be purchased and/or leased under a separate agreement.

Pertinent dates are as follows:

Posting Date: Thursday, December 10, 2015

Proposals Due: Proposals must be submitted no later than 3:00 P.M., Friday, January 15, 2016.

Written Questions Due: Written questions must be submitted no later than 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, January 05, 2016

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