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To: Mark E. Bernhardson, City Administrator From: Teri L. Naab, Deputy Clerk Date: January 4, 1990 Subject: New Phone System Attachments - Amended Proposal from each Company (Interior Communications' will be forthcoming) After reviewing the Request for Proposals received and going out to actually see the three lowest priced systems, I would like to make the following comments. Some of the features have been explained to give a better idea on what they do, or what the system cannot do. 1. Interior Communications - Bob Rigenhagen The single line sets proposed for this system; * Need to dial 9 for an outside line. If all lines are busy, a multi-line set will ring back when a line is available, the single line set will not. * Cannot answer and direct incoming calls and therefore cannot be used as a back-up console (receptionist ). * Cannot camp-on a call. This feature allows a call to be held on an intercom when that phone is in use. When the first call is disconnected, the phone would ring with the second call. This feature helps with those important phone calls. * All features must be implemented by the use of a code. The single line sets do not tell you which features are on or off (ex. Do Not Disturb). The representative was not sure if some of the features could even be accessed by code. * Single line ion cards have 7 stations per card, the multi-line ds have 8. When the system is maximized, the six.^le line sets would allow about 8 less stations overall. * There are no speaker phone/hands free calling options on the single line sets. All calls must be answered or initiated by using the hand set. The representative showed us a multi-lined set and pointed out that in addition to the features noted above, the multi- lined set could included the following features; * Zone paging and over-all paging. We could have cert.aln phones on a zone and be able to pick a zone to page a particular person. CL