# 2023-04 Pulaski County Issues RFP-23-003 for ALPRs On **April 2, 2023**, the [[Pulaski County Purchasing Department]] issued **RFP-23-003 (Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs))** through the [[ARBid]] state procurement portal. Bid deadline **May 2, 2023, 02:00 PM CT**. Lead Buyer: [[Tashika Keown]]. The scope solicited proposals to **lease approximately six (6) ALPR systems** with substantive technical requirements covering: - Cellular-connected, solar-or-AC-powered fixed cameras - Web-based platform with searchable plate-and-vehicle attribute queries - Vendor-retained hardware ownership with vendor-handled installation and removal - **Inter-agency hot-list sharing in both directions** — bidders' platforms must allow PCSO to access other agencies' shared plate-reads and to share PCSO plate-reads with other agencies - **Detection of plate-less and paper-plate vehicles** and detection of bicycles, ATVs, and motorcycles - Automatic comparison against hotlists including NCIC, AMBER Alerts, Missing Persons/Vulnerable Adult Alerts - Vendor-handled ARDOT permitting The RFP structured a **two-stage evaluation**: technical bids only at submission (no pricing), with pricing solicited separately from responsive/responsible bidders after the technical bid closes. ## Sources - [[Pulaski County RFP-23-003 Solicitation and Flock Safety Bid]] — the production-overview source for the RFP solicitation text and Flock's bid response. ## Significance This is the **issuing event for the corpus's first competitive Arkansas Flock procurement.** The decision to procure ALPR through a public RFP rather than through cooperative-purchasing piggyback or sole-source exemption is the procurement-track-determining moment. The RFP's scope **embeds Flock's signature operating model** — the inter-agency hot-list sharing requirement (#17-18) and the established-network-effects expectation favor vendors with national multi-agency Flock-like platforms. Whether the County deliberately scoped the RFP to favor Flock, or whether the scope simply reflected PCSO's operational needs given its existing engagement in the regional Flock-sharing networks, is not in the corpus. The April 2023 issue date is **6 months before** Flock's executed MSA (October 2023) and **7 months before** the file-stamped contract entry (November 2023). The full procurement lifecycle from solicitation to legally-effective execution took approximately 8 months.