# NetMotion Mobile VPN / Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) vendor. **NetMotion Software** was acquired by **Absolute Software Corporation** (Vancouver, Canada, publicly traded as Absolute Secure Access / NASDAQ: ABST) in 2021 and is now sold under the Absolute Secure Access brand. LRPD's NetMotion subscription provides "encrypted tunnel that can be temporarily suspended when the cellular connection is lost, be restored once that connection has been restored, and maintain the integrity and required security of the CJIS data" — i.e., a mobile VPN with cellular-disconnect resilience for in-vehicle laptops uploading CJIS data. ## Corporate identity | Fact | Value | Source | |---|---|---| | Product name (current) | NetMotion (still sold under this brand by Absolute Secure Access) | (Tier-1 corpus, [[CLR-2026-778]], NetMotion Renewal Quote MKB2407300) | | Current parent | Absolute Software Corporation (Vancouver, Canada) | (Tier-3 reference — outside corpus) | | Reseller to LRPD | **Aercor, Inc.** (14033 Commerce Ave NE #300-361, Prior Lake, MN 55372) | (Tier-1 corpus, same) | | LRPD subscription term (2024-2025) | 2024-03-12 through 2025-03-22 (1 year) | (Tier-1 corpus, same) | | LRPD subscription cost | **$30,064.80** | (Tier-1 corpus, same) | | User licenses | 180 + 100 = 280 licenses (mixed tiers) | (Tier-1 corpus, same) | ## Procurement vehicle NetMotion runs on **Arkansas competitive-bid exemption #26** (proprietary-software renewal), **NOT exemption #44 (single source)** like Cellebrite, PowerDMS, and other LRPD sole-source buys. This is a procurement-mechanism distinction worth flagging: > "The following commodities and services related to proprietary software after the initial procurement: a. Technical support incidental to supporting the continuous operation of proprietary software / b. Renewals / c. Additional copies and / d. Licenses upgrades" (Tier-1 corpus, [[CLR-2026-778]], Competitive Exemption_LRPD_NetMotion_2024_Approved.txt, Appendix I Line 26) So a proprietary-software *renewal* doesn't need a new chief-executive proclamation (which #44 requires); it just requires a procurement-manager signoff. Exemption #26 is a more permissive procurement track than #44. ## The substantive justification (per the exemption form) The exemption form justifies the sole-source-pattern procurement on capability grounds: > "LRDP request to renew our contract with NetMotion because it allows the officers to have a secure connection back to the City of Little Rock's network. The software provides an encrypted tunnel that can be temporarily suspended when the cellular connection is lost, be restored once that connection has been restored, and maintain the integrity and required security of the CJIS data under all of this condition. The aforementioned ability is crucial to data integrity and officer safety since the officer is not required to login after every disconnect over cellular. We would need a full trial setup of 3 or more months to verify another vendors capability to offer the same connection, spend several weeks equipping and testing the more than 100 vehicles to ensure that they have a secure laptop connection to the City's network and secure video offloading, which are all provided through the netmotion solution. Researching the topic on the internet reveals that are about 20 well known reliable vendors that offer enterprise vpn, of those 20, only 5 of them concentrate on securing data over cellular. Netmoton is unique in that it maintains secure transfer of encrypted data, even if the cellular connection is interrupted temporarily. The method that the vendor uses to create and hold traffic in stasis is proprietary and not available to other competitors. If the Little Rock Police department did not have the Netmotion software solution, we would not be able to transfer data according to FBI CJIS guidelines which includes offloading video from the cars and bodycams, officers would be reduced to writing reports at the substations and completing identification checks over the radio. Netmotion is mission critical to keeping the officers safe, the data generated from their work safe, and thereby the citizens of the City of Little Rock safe." (Tier-1 corpus, same, p. 1) This is one of the most substantively reasoned sole-source justifications in the corpus. It both (a) names the technical specifics that make NetMotion's product distinct (cellular-disconnect resilience) and (b) makes the CJIS-compliance argument explicitly. ## Verbatim citations > "Department: Police / Amount: $30,064.80 / Line Exemption (Appendix I) — Line #26 / Date: 02/12/2024 / Signature: Latreasa Mullins-Sanders / Approved by: Lisa King 02/15/24" (Tier-1 corpus, same, exemption form metadata) > "NMCOMPCONRNW / 1-Year Subscription Renewal / Full access to the NetMotion platform and all of its features, powering security, visibility and connectivity use-cases. Includes the software defined perimeter (SDP), enterprise VPN and experience monitoring solutions. / (Effective from 3/12/2024 through 3/22/2025)" (Tier-1 corpus, NetMotion Renewal Quote MKB2407300, p. 2) ## Roles in this corpus - **The mobile-VPN vendor providing CJIS-compliant secure connections** for LRPD's in-vehicle laptops, body cameras, and other mobile devices. - **The only exemption-#26 (proprietary-software-renewal) buy in the corpus** — distinct from the exemption-#44 sole-source pattern that Cellebrite, PowerDMS, and (in the i2 case) other vendors follow. - **CJIS-mandate-cited** — the exemption form names FBI CJIS as the regulatory driver requiring NetMotion's particular capabilities. ## People - [[Latreasa Mullins-Sanders]] — LRPD Administrative Services Finance Manager; signed the exemption form 2024-02-12. - [[Lisa King]] — City Senior Procurement Analyst; approved the exemption 2024-02-15. - **Teris McClay** ([email protected], 501-371-4874) — LRPD customer contact named on the Aercor quote. (Proportionate; no per-person page.) - **Michelle Bassett** — Aercor renewals administrator ([email protected], 651-289-4212). (Proportionate.) - **Kennedy B Green** ([email protected]) — copied on the Mullins-Sanders ↔ King thread; presumably Procurement office staff. (Proportionate.) ## Notes - The 2021 NetMotion-Absolute Software acquisition is not directly anchored in the [[CLR-2026-778]] corpus but is public knowledge. The Aercor quote uses the standalone "NetMotion" brand throughout, consistent with Absolute Software's product-line preservation. - See [[Competitive-Bid Exemption (Sole-Source Procurement)]] for the procurement-mechanism concept; this is the corpus's clearest example of exemption #26 (renewal) versus #44 (sole source). - See [[CJIS Compliance]] for the federal-standard cross-reference.