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BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance to establish a purchase order for Cisco SmartNet maintenance services to support citywide metronet hardware. This purchase will be accomplished through a universal term contract (UTC) that is established with Resource One. The metronet is a critical component of the computing infrastructure of the City.
SmartNet supports data transfer needs for imaging applications as well as other city applications such as e-mail, WASIMS (water billing), Performance series (purchasing/procurement and accounting), payroll/personnel and geographic information system (GIS). Establishing this purchase order will provide Cisco hardware maintenance support for the city's metronet for a one-year period of April 1, 2004 through March 31, 2005.
FISCAL IMPACT: A total of $434,337.90 was expended with Resource One for the Cisco SmartNet contract in 2003. Funding of $435,850.42 is budgeted and available for the Cisco SmartNet services provided by Resource One within the Technology Department's information service fund.
EMERGENCY: There is an immediate need to execute this purchase for Cisco SmartNet maintenance services to support the city's metronet hardware in order to have uninterrupted support service.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE NUMBER: 31-1419297 Expires 03/07/2007
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance to establish a purchase order with Resource One for Cisco SmartNet hardware maintenance support services for the city's metronet infrastructure from the universal term contract established for the Department of Technology, to authorize the expenditure of $435,850.42 from the Department of Technology's information service fund, and to declare an emergency. ($435,850.42)
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WHEREAS, this ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance to establish a purchase order with Resource One for Cisco SmartNet hardware maintenance support services for the city's metronet infrastructure from the universal term contract established for the Department of Technology, and
WHEREAS, the purchase order will provide Cisco hardware maintenance support services for a one-year period, and
WHEREAS, the network has been designed to support data transfer needs for imaging and current city applications such as e-mail, WASIMS (water billing), Performance series, payroll/personnel and geographic information system (GIS), and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the city in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the establishment of a purchase order for Cisco SmartNet hardware maintenance services with Resource One, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1: That the Director of the Department of Finance be and is hereby authorized to establish a purchase order to Resource One for the purchase of Cisco SmartNet hardware maintenance support services from the universal term contract established for the Department of Technology, Information Service Division.
SECTION 2: That the expenditure of $435,850.42 or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby authorized to be expended from:
Div.: 47-02|Fund: 514|Subfund: 001|OCA: 471514|Obj. Level 1: 03|Obj. Level 3: 3372|Amount: $355,349.62
Div.: 47-02|Fund: 514|Subfund: 010|OCA: 300147|Obj. Level 1: 03| Obj. Level 3: 3372| Amount: $80,500.80
SECTION 3: That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.
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