Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Finance and Management Department, on behalf of the Department of Technology (DoT), to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate State Term Schedule (STS033-534354 - extended through 06/30/2019) authorized for the City's use by Ordinance No. 582-87 with Brown Enterprise Solutions, LLC for the purchase of Splunk software licensing, (1) one year software maintenance and support, software implementation services, and training for one year from the date of a certified purchase order from the city auditor at a cost of $513,657.12, and a pre-existing Universal Term Contract/ Purchase Agreement (UTC/PA) with OnX USA LLC (PA000213 - expires 06/30/2018) to purchase computer hardware (servers and storage ) totaling $194,681.21 necessary to operate and support the Splunk software.
This purchase includes a one-time purchase of Splunk software licensing to be owned by the City at a cost of $347,631.52, a one-time purchase of solution implementation services at a cost of $74,055.30, initial solution training at a cost of $19,748.00, and the first year of software license support at a cost of $72,222.30. Expenditures on software license support in future years will be supported by the Information Services Operating Fund.
The Department of Technology has a need to purchase Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, and Splunk IT Service Intelligence software to meet evolving security, compliance, and operational requirements. This purchase will provide real-time event management and correlation, anomaly detection, and high-performance, large-scale historical data analysis necessary to address security and availability needs of the City. This purchase will also provide log monitoring, retention, and integrity necessary to meet regulatory compliance mandates such as PCI DSS and IRS 1075.
The Splunk software and services being purchased are available u...
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