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Approval of contract with Vizonomy, Inc. Arlington, Virginia to continue Capital Management & Planning software development of the INFLOW Platform for the Lake County Stormwater Management Commission (SMC) in the amount of $182,208 for Fiscal Year 2025.
Staff Summary
• The SMC entered into an agreement with Vizonomy, Inc., a leading Design & Data Strategy firm for data science, web visualization and online mapping for the implementation of SMC’s capital improvement program in April of 2022.
• INFLOW streamlines the application process for multiple grant programs administered by SMC; organizes, draft, current, ongoing, and past projects in a secure database; enables users to create projects and display the watershed geography and details for several hundred existing SMC projects.
• INFLOW provides effective project-based communication between applicants, project managers, and other authorized users, which has enabled staff to significantly expand SMC’s watershed project management capabilities.
• Pursuant to Chapter 33.066 Bid Exemption of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, the Purchasing Agent engaged an ad hoc committee that approved a bid exemption on December 16, 2024 based on an existing long-standing, successful relationship with Vizonomy, Inc.
• The knowledge gained through this relationship will continue to provide cost-effective solutions to streamline SMC’s countywide data framework, as described in the attached proposal.