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TEXAS RANGERS

 

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM

DATE: 7/20/10
DIVISION: Ranger
TO: Valerie Fulmer, Assistant Director, Administration
FROM: Tony Leal, Assistant Director, Texas Rangers '72?

SUBJECT: Emergency Contract Extension Request for Abrams Learning and
information Systems, Inc. (ALIS) - Border Security Management and Operations
- Texas Border Security Operations Center (BSOC)

On April 1, 2010, the Border Security Operations Center (3800) personnel came
under the direction and control of the Texas Ranger Division. Prior to this date,

Intelligence Centers (JOIC) employ contract personnel from Abrams Learning
and Information Systems (ALIS). The existing contract (P40501131 
874050) will expire August 31, 2010.

The 8800 function is vital to the safety of the citizens of Texas as well as law
enforcement officers working along the Texas-Mexican Border. Aside from
tracking, analyzing, and disseminating vital criminal intelligence resulting from the

border. Moreover, the 8800 assists the Department and Ranger Division with
ongoing uni?ed command missions such as Ranger recon missions and Border
Star operations aiong the Texas-Mexico border. The current contract expires on
August 31, 2010, and it is not foreseeable to open and negotiate a viable contract
during this short time period. Services provided by these personnel are vital to
the life, safety, and welfare of those citizens and law enforcement officers
working and living along the Texas-Mexico border. Discontinuing this service to
ongoing ?eld operations would have a severe impact upon the effectiveness of
law enforcement working in this geographical region of the state.