Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of The Department of Technology to modify a contract with Delta Computer Services, Inc. The Department of Technology (DoT) uses a large number of Hewlett-Packard (HP) Systems that support several city agencies' business applications such as Performance Series accounting and purchasing systems, Income Tax, Regulations, and geographic information systems (GIS). Also included are systems supporting the daily operations of the Communications, Telecommunications and Electricity Divisions, etc.
This contract will enable differing levels of support, depending upon how critical the application is to the business of the city. Critical applications, such as Performance Series, will receive 24-hour, 365-day support. Other less important applications will be scaled back, dependant on need for availability. Other services provided by this contract include provision of technical manuals, software licenses and optional services that will allow DoT staff to customize their support of the application on which they are working. As such, systems that are used for development, testing and other non-critical business functions will also have the appropriate level of hardware and software support.
The systems are covered under an annually renewable contract for a three-year term that affords the City substantial price discounts. The three-year agreement became effective upon the approval of Ordinance # 0621-2006 last year and will continue through April 2009. This ordinance represents year two of the three-year term of the annually renewable system support agreement. Delta Computer Services, Inc. will be subcontracting the software maintenance to Beechglen Development, Inc. Contract compliance number 31-1258834, expiration date 03/13/2008.
EMERGENCY: There is an immediate need to modify a contract with Delta Computer Services, Inc., to maintain and provide uninterrupted support services for multiple in...
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