Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to establish a purchase order/contract on behalf of the Department of Technology (DoT), for professional services to migrate the city’s current Cisco ASA and Juniper SRX 4100 platforms to a security solution leveraging the Palo Alto security platform using Ohio State Term Schedule STS033-534605 with CDW Government. This state term schedule has an expiration date of 10/30/2023. These professional services are required to complete the final phase of this project. The contract term period for the professional services to undertake the migration will be one year, starting on the date of a confirmed/certified purchase order by the Columbus City Auditor's Office. This ordinance also authorizes the expenditure of $16,980.00 for the above stated purpose.
The Palo Alto Firewall refresh project is a major upgrade to the Core City Firewall services which provides all inbound and outbound internet connections to the City. The Palo Alto project implementation is approached in multiple phases by the vendor CDWG and the final phase of the firewall cutover had a dependency on another project (HCI). The HCI project dependency had caused a delay on the final phase of the Palo Alto Project and the HCI project dependency is now projected to be completed by the end of October 2021. The Department of Technology (DoT) will need the same team from the vendor CDWG to perform the final Palo Alto Firewall cutover.
This ordinance also authorizes a waiver of the competitive bidding provisions of Columbus City Codes. The Department of Technology requests waiver of relevant sections of Columbus City Codes pertaining to competitive bidding requirements in order to pursue the above-described actions for the final phase of the firewall cutover (Palo Alto Project).
Finally, this ordinance authorizes the transfer of appropriation and cash between projects within the Information Services Bond Fund, and will amend the ...
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