Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This legislation will authorize the Director of the Department of Technology (DoT) to renew and modify 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 original three year agreement (EL012309) was authorized by ordinance 1977-2011, passed December 5, 2011. This ordinance will authorize the second year of that agreement, April 15, 2013 to April 14, 2014, at a cost of $166,000.00
This ordinance will also authorize a modification to enable the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) to have an annual sub-account for ESRI’s new ArcGIS Online service, subordinate to the City’s enterprise account. The sub-account for DPU will enable them to better control access to Public Utilities GIS information made available through ArcGIS Online. The need for this service was not known at the time of the original agreement, so was not included in the original agreement. ArcGIS Online is a service that is only available from ESRI, so the City cannot use alternate procurement methods to obtain this service. The cost of the service, in the amount of $2,500.00, was negotiated with ESRI.
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 almost all of its current portfolio of ESRI software (2 existing ESRI licenses are not included, and will need to be renewed and supported separate from the enterprise agreement). The agreement will also enable the City unlimited licensing to the most heavily used ESRI software products, en...
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