Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $673,871.10 for the procurement of supplies, services and equipment associated with a collaborative project between the City of Columbus and Columbus City Schools. In the spirit of intergovernmental cooperation, the City of Columbus (the city) and Columbus City Schools (CCS) are entering into a 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, 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 ordinance 2557-2017, which passed on October 30, 2017.
For the purpose of the City of Columbus, Columbus City Schools Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol collaborative project, this ordinance authorizes the Director of Finance and Management, on behalf of the Department of Technology (DoT) to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate existing Universal Term Contracts (UTC’s)/Purchase Agreements (PA’s) as follows:
Network Dynamics, Inc. (PA000220 - expires 06/30/2018) $53,169.90
Network Dynamics, Inc. (PA001583 - expires 09/30/2018) $432,925.00
AT&T (PA000901 - expires 03/31/2019) $79,860.66
OnX USA LLC (PA000213 - expires 06/30/2018) $52,517.43
Wesco (PA000...
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