Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Department of Technology (DoT) immediately requires support and maintenance services, from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) to support ongoing operations of the city's geographic information system (GIS), which supports several business applications, such as web-based applications utilized by city residents and city employees, crime mapping applications and other GIS data products.
In order to continue the benefits of this software product, including upgrades and support, the city must renew its contract with ESRI, which will allow the city to continue receiving upgrades, technical support and subscriptions. Without the software maintenance support services the city will not be able to deploy web-based applications, such as crime mapping, the city will lose the capability to upgrade current software applications and lose technical support. Also, loosing these services will negatively impact customer service and peak performance provided to city residents and employees that utilize web-based applications.
The City of Columbus, Department of Technology entered into a support services contract, associated with EL003467, with ESRI, as authorized by Columbus City Council (Ordinance No. 0976-02) in July 2002. The passage of this ordinance will allow DoT to renew the support and maintenance services, with ESRI, from February 15, 2005 through February 14, 2006. This annual software maintenance and support agreement represents 12 months of ESRI software maintenance for both server-side components and client-side components.
FISCAL IMPACT: The renewal of ESRI support maintenance is budgeted and available in the 2005 informations services fund's budget and will cover the time period from February 15, 2005 through February 14, 2006 in the amount of $67,047.00. Previously, in fiscal year 2003, there was an expenditure of $62,758.00 for this service. During fiscal year 2004, $65,864.03 was expended for relate...
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