Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Technology (DoT), to modify and extend an existing agreement with CDW Government, LLC through the extension of purchase order PO304956. The extension makes the funds on the above referenced purchase order available for an additional year, through December 31, 2023. There are no new or additional funds required/requested via this legislation and subsequent purchase order extension. The original contract was approved as bid waiver legislation, authorized by Ordinance 2416-2021, passed on November 15, 2021. That legislation authorized purchase order PO304956 for 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 with CDW Government, LLC. These professional services are required to complete the final phase of this project.
The Palo Alto Firewall refresh project is a major upgrade to the Core City Firewall services which provides all inbound and outbound internet connections to the City. The Palo Alto project implementation is approached in multiple phases by the vendor CDWG and the final phase of the firewall cutover had a dependency on another project (HCI). The HCI project dependency had caused a delay on the final phase of the Palo Alto Project and the HCI project dependency and will be completed in 2023. The Department of Technology (DoT) needs to extend purchase order PO304956 and will need the same team from the vendor CDWG to perform the final Palo Alto Firewall cutover.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE:
Vendor Name: CDW Government LLC; FID#/CC#: 36-4230110; Expiration Date: 3/10/2024
(City DAX Vendor Acct#: 007352)
FISCAL IMPACT:
No additional costs are associated with this ordinance. Passage of this ordinance allows the funds on the above-referenced purchase order (PO304956) available for an additional year, through December 31, 2023.
EMERGENCY:
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