Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This legislation will authorize the Director of the Department of Technology (DoT) to renew an enterprise license agreement with Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) for software licensing, maintenance and support for the City’s geographic information systems (GIS). The City entered into a new three year ESRI enterprise agreement in 2015, authorized by ordinance 0245-2015, passed February 9, 2015. The most recent contract was authorized by ordinance 0183-2016, passed February 29, 2016. This ordinance will authorize the third and final year of the three year agreement for the period April 15, 2017 to April 14, 2018, at a cost of $210,000.00.
The City’s GIS system supports several business applications, such as web-based applications utilized by city residents and city employees, crime mapping, My Neighborhoods, Capital Improvement Projects Map, and the Zoning Map applications, Citywide desktop software used for data maintenance and analysis, as well as other GIS data products. This enterprise agreement will enable the City to continue to access ESRI maintenance and support for its current portfolio of ESRI software. The agreement will also enable the City unlimited licensing to the most heavily used ESRI software products, enabling the City to more cost-effectively meet emerging City GIS technology needs.
The City’s technology standard for GIS software is ESRI ArcGIS. ESRI is the sole provider of licensing, maintenance and support for its GIS software products. As such, this ordinance is being submitted in accordance with the provisions of Sole Source procurement of the Columbus City Code Section 329.07.
EMERGENCY:
Emergency designation is requested to immediately facilitate prompt execution of the software licenses and professional services contract renewal before the expiration date.
FISCAL IMPACT:
In 2016 and 2017, $210,000.00 was legislated each year with ESRI for an enterprise license agreement/contra...
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