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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Issue The Attached Purchase Order Between Govconnection, Inc. And The City Of Hollywood For The Purchase Of Two (2) Simplivity Hyper-Converged Server Platforms And Accessories In An Amount Not To Exceed $145,798.00.
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the Attached Resolution.
Explanation:
The Department of Information Technology (IT), on behalf of the Department of Public Utilities, desires to purchase two (2) Simplivity Hyper-converged servers with accessories to expand the City’s existing Simplivity platform and migrate the requested servers to that platform system.
By consolidating all components into a single optimized platform with centralized management, it enables increased utilization, lower costs and a more robust and redundant server platform.
The Simplivity Hyper-convergence is a computing infrastructure for virtual workloads which removes any single point of failure for all servers running on that platform.
The Simplivity Hyper-converged server platforms and accessories are available through GovConnection, Inc. pursuant to the National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (NCPA) Contract Number 01-44, which was procured by competitive bid.
The Simplivity Maintenance for the servers will include software and hardware support, including phone, email, and web, and access to new software releases and updates with responsive service level agreements, thus, the cost for this Maintenance is $16,230.00 per year, provided by the Public Utilities Department, and beginning in year two from the date of receipt of said products.
Section 38.40 (C)(5) of the Purchasing Ordinance allows the Director to procure, without following formal procedures, all goods and services which are subject of contracts with the state, its political subdivisions, the United States government, other governmental entities, or a corporation not for profit whose members are governmental entities, public officers, or any combination thereof, provided however, the goods and services are: (i) the subject of a price schedule negotiated by the state or the United States government, or (ii) the subject of a contract with another governmental entity or a corporation not for profit whose members are governmental entities, public officers, or any combination thereof, which contract is based strictly on competitive bids or competitive proposals and not on any preference.
The Director of Information Technology, the Director of Public Utilities and the Director of Procurement and Contract Compliance recommend that the City Commission approve the issuance of the attached purchase order for the purchase of two (2) Simplivity Hyper-converged server platforms with accessories in an amount not to exceed $145,798.00.
Funding for this purchase is available in the COMP EQUIP-UTILITY BILLING TRANS R13311 Account Number 42.4000.90716.536.006441.
Recommended for inclusion on the agenda by:
Dr. Wazir Ishmael, City Manager
George R. Keller,Jr., ACM, Finance & Administration
Steve Joseph, Director, Public Utilities
Raheem Seecharan, Director, Information Technology
Paul Bassar, Director & Contract Compliance, Procurement