Explanation
BACKGROUND:
The Finance and Management Director is hereby authorized to associate all General Budget reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreement for the purchase of CISCO Equipment and Smartnet Maintenance for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant with Network Dynamics Incorporated (PA000220 expires 06/30/17).
The Jackson Pike and Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plants each have an internal computer network. The Cisco switches are used to connect the different buildings together to communicate with SCADA Servers in each plant. Each building that houses one of these switches have various end devices connected to them such as (Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC’s), workstations, Uninterruptable Power Supply’s (UPS’s), radio’s, etc. that communicate across this network to the servers in each plant.
These are replacements for Cisco Switches that have reached their end of life and are no longer supported by Cisco.
SUPPLIER: Network Dynamics Incorporated Vendor#007308 CC#36-3941419 Expires 11/18/16
The company is not debarred according to the Excluded Party Listing System of the Federal Government or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State Unresolved Findings for Recovery Certified Search.
FISCAL IMPACT: $139,305.00 is budgeted and needed for this purchase.
$185,000.00 was spent in 2015
$10,802.62 was spent in 2014
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To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreement for the purchase of CISCO Equipment and Smartnet Maintenance from a Universal Term Contract with Network Dynamics Incorporated for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and to authorize the expenditure of $139,305.00 from the Sewerage Operating Fund. ($139,305.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has established a Universal Term Contract PA000220 for the purchase of CISCO Equipment and Smartnet Maintenance with Network Dynamics Incorporated; and
WHEREAS, CISCO Equipment and Smartnet Maintenance are used by the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant, and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage, to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreement for the purchase of CISCO Equipment and Smartnet Maintenance with Network Dynamics Incorporated for the preservation of public health, peace, property, safety; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Finance and Management be and is hereby authorized to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreement for the purchase of CISCO Equipment and Smartnet Maintenance with Network Dynamics Incorporated, 640 Brooker Creed Blvd., Suite 410, Oldsmar, FL 34677 for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
SECTION 2. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $139,305.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and is hereby authorized in Fund 6100 (Sewer Operating-Sanitary); in object class 02 Materials and Supplies per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.