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AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO A LINKING AGREEMENT WITH INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR, INC., AND FOR THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS
Staff Contact: Chuck Murphy, Chief Information Officer, Innovation 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 with Insight Public Sector Inc., for a term commencing June 30, 2016 and ending on June 30, 2017, and to authorize the City Manager, at their discretion, to renew the agreement for four additional one-year periods until June 30, 2021. Under the terms of the agreement, Insight Public Sector Inc. (Insight) will provide products and services to the city using a cooperative agreement with the State of Arizona. This request also includes approval of expenditure authority in an amount not to exceed $1,700,000 over the life of the agreement
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Background
Maintaining City infrastructure is crucial to all City functions and services. Insight Public Sector, Inc. is a provider of technology software, hardware, software maintenance, support and technical services, and provides the City best pricing through Cooperative purchasing.
City communications of both data and voice rely on network equipment to transfer that information from one location to the next. Network equipment exists throughout the city; however, there are certain components that are common to all network communications known as the "Core." The Core network equipment comprised of firewalls, routers, and switches is critical to daily city operations. The approval of this expenditure request enables the Innovation & Technology department to quickly order replacements for non-functioning equipment, and hardware that is no longer supported.
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...
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