Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance will allow the Department of Technology (DoT) to utilize Time Warner Cable (TWC) as a sole source Internet provider utilizing their high speed internet service and Road Runner service to include the Sonic Wall Fire Wall security appliance that will provide enhanced security. This Universal Term Contract (UTC) will provide an umbrella of services including Wi-Fi (wireless connectivity) that are tied together providing a single source of contact for these services. The contract would be in effect through December 31, 2009.
DoT surveyed the market place and determined there was no other supplier able to provide the degree of security needed to protect the city's infrastructure with anti-virus protection and also provide high speed internet access to not only city users but citizens using the service at city facilities.
By utilizing the Time Warner Telecom services DoT will be able to consolidate network servers at the Arlingate facility thus, resulting in additional security at less cost
This company is not in the State of Ohio Unresolved Findings for Recovery database or the Federal Government Excluded Parties Listing.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding to establish this option contract is budgeted in the Universal Term Contract Fund. The Department of Technology will be required to obtain approval to expend from their own appropriations for their estimated annual expenditures.
Title
To authorize the Director of Finance & Management on behalf of the Department of Technology to enter into a Universal Term Contract with Time Warner Cable for the acquisition of Internet services; to authorize the expenditure of $1.00 to establish the contract from the Universal Term Contract Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($1.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Time Warner Cable is the only supplier able to provide both the bandwidth and authorized to use the Sonic Wall Fire Wall security appliance to meet daily operation goals and to meet the necessity of a single point of contact; therefore, this legislation is being submitted as a sole source; and
WHEREAS, DoT surveyed the market place to determine Time Warner Cable was the sole provider for enhanced security and managed services; and
WHEREAS, the DoT has a need to provide managed secure WiFi for city workers and the public; and
WHEREAS, the DoT has a need to provide server consolidation effort for the Department of Recreation and Parks; and
WHEREAS, a emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Department of Technology in that it is necessary to enter into contract for the purchase of enhanced bandwidth and managed services, 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: To direct the Director of Finance & Management on behalf of the Department of Technology to enter into a sole source contract for the acquisition of Internet services related to the Internet Expansion project as follows:
Time Warner Cable, All Items $1.00
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $1.00 is hereby authorized from Purchasing UTC Fund, Organization Level 1: 45-50, Fund: 05-517, Object Level 3: 2270, OCA: 450020, to pay the cost thereof.
SECTION 3: That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to by an emergency measure, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or in ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.