Explanation
Background: Ordinance 2807- 97, approved by Columbus City Council on November 24, 1997, authorized the Franklin County Municipal Court, Clerk of Court ( "Municipal Court Clerk") to enter into a contract with Crawford Consulting, Inc., for the purpose of implementing an integrated CourtView case management system for the Franklin County Municipal Court.
Crawford Consulting, Inc. which began in 1984 was acquired by MAXIMUS on March 2, 2000, and operated as CCI-MAXIMUS and then as MAXIMUS Justice Solutions. In October of 2008, Trapeze Software Group purchased the MAXIMUS Justice Solution Division. The acquisition was renamed CourtView Justice Solutions, Inc ("CJS").
The maintenance and support, professional services, software and licenses for the CourtView case management system were provided by the aforementioned companies through 2009. Thereafter, support services were provided by NashWest, LLC.
This ordinance authorizes the Municipal Court Clerk to enter into the first twelve months of a thirty-six (36) month contract with four (4) consecutive twelve (12) month renewal options with CJS and to amend the 1997 license agreement for the purchase of maintenance, support, professional and optional services, additional licenses and software for the Franklin County Municipal Court case management system.
These services, additional software and licenses are necessary to gain significant efficiency benefits from work process modules not present in our current case management version; and to facilitate the implementation of an electronic filing solution in furtherance of the courts pursuit of a paperless justice environment. This will result in reduced space requirements, and improved workflow processes. Additionally this ensures we have a support vendor that can provide proprietary source code changes required by legislative mandates.
Bid Information:
Pricing was negotiated between CJS and the Municipal Court Clerk. Discounts were offered...
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