Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance and Management, on behalf of the Department of Technology, to establish various purchase orders with the following vendors: Agilysys Inc. for the purchase of HP equipment and services as well as EMC equipment and services; Software House International (SHI) for the purchase of Symantec software and support, Microsoft SQL and Windows Server Licenses and software assurance. Three (3) purchase orders will be created utilizing the terms and conditions from pre-existing Universal Term Contracts (UTC), established through the competitive bid process by the Purchasing Office, and one (1) purchase order will be created utilizing a State Term Schedule, authorized for the City's use by Ordinance No. 582-87, with the following vendors:
*Agilysys Inc., HP Equipment and Services, $795,405.67, (FL004390, BPCMP46A - Expiration Date: 6/30/11)
*Agilysys Inc., EMC Equipment and Services, $872,389.84, (FL004391, BPCMP45A - Expiration Date: 6/30/11)
*Software House International, Inc. (SHI), Symantec software and support, $18,970.00, (FL004714, BPSFT15B - Expiration Date: 9/30/11)
*Software House International, Inc. (SHI), $108,395.10, (State Term Schedule, 0A07004 - Expiration Date: 6/30/11)
*See Attachment A: Purchase Summary for Ord. # 1585-2010
The Department of Technology has identified a need to expand the virtualization platform it has built its data infrastructure on, to include disaster recovery, database, and desktop computing platforms. The required servers and associated infrastructure hardware will provide a recovery platform in case of any outage at the primary data center, provide hardware to establish lower cost database platforms, and establish a virtual desktop platform to better utilize existing desktop computing resources within the City. The Data Center/Disaster Recovery Site project is ready for the addition of hardware to bring information sys...
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