Explanation
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 Pomeroy IT Solutions under FL002554 that expires 3/31/2007. 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, 2005 through March 31, 2006.
FISCAL IMPACT: A total of $434,337.90 in 2003 and $435,850.42 in 2004 was expended with Resource One for the Cisco SmartNet contract, services associated with metronet hardware support. Funding of $469,701.00 was budgeted and is available for the Cisco SmartNet services within the Technology Department's information service fund. However, $311,607.65 is the cost for services associated with this contract, coverage period from April 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006.
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: 61-1352158 Expires 10/05/2007
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance to establish a purchase order with Pomeroy IT Solutions 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 $311,607.65 from the Department of Technology's infor...
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