Explanation
In the spirit of intergovernmental cooperation, the City of Columbus (the city) and Columbus City Schools (CCS) are entering into a collaborative partnership for the provision of Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol telephone services at CCS. Over the past several years, the city, through its Department of Technology (DoT) has invested in and implemented a robust Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP) system. CCS has a need to update their existing telephone system. Rather than build a new system from the ground up, CCS has determined that it is more cost effective to take advantage of existing economies of scale by entering into a payment for services agreement with the city.
As part of this agreement, the city will maintain, support and revise the shared VoIP solution hosting environment and provide 24-hour Tier 2-4 resolution support, and remotely support CCS Tier-1 with deployment, operations and provisioning of IP phones and the VoIP solution. The specific responsibilities of each party are spelled out in a Memorandum of Understanding and associated exhibits, attached to this ordinance.
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Technology to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (hereafter referred to as the “agreement”) with Columbus City Schools. As part of this agreement, the city will enter into a payment-for-services agreement with Columbus City Schools for the provision of the above-described services. Payment for services will be as described in the agreement and associated exhibits and will be deposited into a subfund created for this purpose. Payments made by CCS to the city are set to recover the city’s costs only.
The agreement will become effective on the last date it is signed and remain in effect for a period of three years. Legislative action is required to extend it.
Finally, as part of this project, DoT may transfer surplus VOIP enabled phone units to CCS. As such, the ordinance also authorizes waiver of C...
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