Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance No. 1078-2013 authorizes expenditures of $723,575 and is a companion to ordinance No. 1077-2013, which authorizes an additional $6,924,542: a total of $7,648,117. This legislation authorizes the City Auditor to enter into contracts with G Treasury SS, LLC, Crowe Horwath LLP, and Vinimaya Inc. for the acquisition of hosted software solutions and professional services for the implementation of GTreasury ONE Enterprise and Vinimaya vMarketPlace. These solutions will be implemented in conjunction with the City’s financial management system implementation. Contracts will be entered into with the following vendors for noted purposes and amounts related to this project:
Company/ Contract purpose/ Not to Exceed
G Treasury SS, LLC/ Software and implementation services for GTreasury in the Treasurer’s Office/ $136,800
Crowe Horwath LLP (Crowe)/ Project Management and Business Analysis for the Treasurer’s Office GTreasury implementation./ $166,575
Vinimaya, Inc. / Software and implementation services for Vinimaya’s vMarketPlace to enhance the City’s eProcurement/ $420,200
Please see background section of Ordinance 1077-2013 for details regarding the vendor selection for the financial management system.
In the process of selecting a financial management system solution, two areas were identified as requiring additional functionality outside the core functionality of all the evaluated Financial Management solutions. The Treasurer’s Office requires a systematic way to account for daily banking transactions, bank reconciliation, and investment activity and must also interface with the City’s accounting system. After reviewing all of the contract, catalog, and shared services features of the Offerors, the Purchasing Office preferred a solution that will augment the provided functionality of the financial management system to aggregate catalog content from various City of Columbus contracts and externally manage the content into ...
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