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AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO A LINKING AGREEMENT WITH QCM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. FOR SERVER AND DATA STORAGE HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT
Staff Contact: Tom Duensing, Director, Finance and Technology
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Purpose and Recommended Action
Recommendation
This is a request for City Council to authorize the City Manager to enter into a linking agreement through January 29, 2015 and approve up to four, one-year renewal options through January 29, 2019 with QCM Technologies, Inc. (QCM) for the purchase of hardware, software, maintenance, support, and technology services in an amount not to exceed $600,000 over the life of the agreement. This cooperative purchase is available through an agreement between Mohave Educational Services and QCM, contract 13U-QCM-0129, and is effective through January 29, 2015 with up to four additional, one-year renewal options through January 29, 2019.
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Background
QCM is a provider of technology hardware, software, maintenance, support, and technical services. The City utilizes IBM (now Lenovo) servers and storage systems in its data centers and QCM is the authorized vendor for those products. QCM also provides technical consulting and services related to servers, networking and configuration assistance with hardware and software components.
Cooperative purchasing allows counties, municipalities, schools, colleges and universities in Arizona to use a contract that was competitively procured by another governmental entity or purchasing cooperative. Such purchasing helps reduce the cost of procurement, allows access to a multitude of competitively bid contracts, and provides the opportunity to take advantage of volume pricing. The Glendale City Code authorizes cooperative purchases when the solicitation process utilized complies with the intent of Glendale's procurement processes. This cooperative purchase is compliant with Chapter 2, Article V, Division 2, Section 2-149 of the Glendale City Code,...
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