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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Approve The Attached Amendment To The Starwind License Agreement And To Issue The Attached Purchase Order With Starwind Software, Inc. For The Purchase Of A Hyper-Converged Data Center Solution And Professional Services With Three Years Of Maintenance For An Amount Not To Exceed $213,092.00
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Staff Recommends: The Approval Of The Attached Resolution.
Explanation:
The Department of Information Technology requires a “one stop virtualization shop” hyper-converged datacenter, which includes products and support for backups, network, hypervisor and storage.
On September 14, 2014, the City Commission passed and adopted Resolution Number R-2014-266, which authorized the purchase of VMWare, servers and related equipment as its primary server solution.
The City has quickly outgrown its existing system, and is in need of a more secure and flexible server infrastructure with greater capacity and expandability.
A Hyper-converged environment allows for more granular and affordable expansion of a virtualized data center solution and provides for better business continuity.
In order to continue to effectively maintain and administer the City’s data center, a consolidated environment to manage and support this infrastructure is needed.
Starwind Software, Inc. provides a Hyper-converged solution with a single solution for products and support for all aspects of the data center.
On August 14, 2018, Notice to Sole Source Number NTSS: 018-18 was posted in Bidsync.com to verify the validity of Starwinds Software, Inc. and no vendors replied to the sole source request, whereby, Starwinds is being recommended for the award as the sole source provider of said solution.
Purchasing Ordinance 38.40(C)(3) provides that, non-competitive supplies, and single source services available from only one source, such as unique, patented, franchised supplies or services, are exempt from the competitive proposal requirements.
The Director of Information Technology and the Director of Procurement and Contract Compliance recommend that the City Commission approve the issuance of the attached purchase order to Starwind Software Inc. for the purchase of hardware, software, and 3 years of maintenance and support for an amount not to exceed of $213,092.00.
Funding has been appropriated in the FY18 Budget in the Information Technology’s Computer Hardware (>500) Account Number 57.1345.00000.590.006441.
Recommended for inclusion on the agenda by:
Dr. Wazir A. Ishmael, Ph. D. City Manager
Adam Reichbach, ACM, Finance & Administration
Cintya Ramos, Director, Finance & Administration
Raheem Seecharan, Director, Information Technology
Paul A. Bassar, Director of Procurement & Contract Compliance