Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Chief Innovation Officer to enter into a professional services contract with Pillar Technology Group, LLC, hereafter referenced as Pillar, in an amount of up to $2,500,000.00 for the provision of various IT services related to the Smart City Challenge.
The Smart City Challenge is a U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) grant program seeking to “create a fully integrated, first-of-its kind city that uses data, technology and creativity to shape how people and goods move in the future.” In 2016, the City of Columbus, acting through the Department of Public Service, applied for and won the Smart City Challenge, receiving a $40 million dollar grant from USDOT and a $10 million grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation (Vulcan).
Some aspects of the Smart City Challenge will be performed by an internal, interdepartmental City team coordinated through the Smart Columbus Program Management Office (PMO). The intent of the Smart City Challenge - IT Professional Services project is to provide the PMO with critical technical resources related to the design and implementation of the Smart Columbus Operating System (SCOS), which is envisioned to scale to be the citywide data management platform for public and private data collected during the Smart City Challenge.
To that end, the Department of Public Service, Office of Support Services, on behalf of the PMO, solicited Requests for Proposals (RFP) for the Smart City Challenge - IT Professional Services project, which was advertised on
and City of Columbus websites from January 22, 2018 to February 13, 2018. The PMO received twenty-one (21) responses. Of those, twenty (20) were deemed responsive and were fully evaluated when the Evaluation Committee met on March 2, 2018.
The responsive responding firms were:
Company Name City/State Maj/MBE/MBR/F1/AS1/PHC
Pillar Technology Group, LLC Columbus, OH UNK
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