Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to establish a purchase order/contract on behalf of the Department of Technology (DoT), for the acquisition of hardware; software and licensing; and professional services to migrate the city’s current Cisco ASA and Juniper SRX 4100 platforms to a security solution leveraging the Palo Alto security platform using Ohio State Term Schedule STS033-534605 with CDW Government. This schedule has an expiration date of 10/30/2023. This acquisition is being done as part of the overall enterprise system upgrades. The contract term period for the professional services to undertake the migration will be one year, starting on the date of a confirmed/certified purchase order by the Columbus City Auditor's Office. The contract term period for the software/hardware maintenance and support services starts on the project "go-live date" which is not known at this time.
This ordinance also authorizes the expenditure of $478,265.40 for the above stated purpose.
Finally, this ordinance authorizes a waiver of the competitive bidding provisions of Columbus City Codes.
Contract Compliance: CDW Government LLC: CC#-364230110. Expires- 2-12-2022
DAX Vendor #: 007352
Emergency Designation: This legislation is to be considered an emergency measure to facilitate the immediate acquisition of the goods and services noted above, so that important services can continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $478,265.40 from existing appropriation and cash within the Information Services Capital Improvement Fund.
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to establish a purchase order/contract on behalf of the Department of Technology (DoT), using Ohio State Term Schedule STS033-534605 with CDW Government, LLC, to acquire hardware, software and software licenses, and professional services to migrate the city’s current Cisco ASA and Juniper SRX 4100 platforms to ...
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