Department: Resource Management
Staff Contact: Mike Sirna/ Amy Tharnish
Subject: Acceptance of bid and consideration of award of contract to Sirius Computer Solutions for installation, implementation, and maintenance of two Dell/EMC Isilon storage clusters; one in each city data center.
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Acceptance of bid and consideration of award of contract to Sirius Computer Solutions for installation, implementation, and maintenance of two Dell/EMC Isilon storage clusters; one in each city data center..
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Summary:
The multiple current storage platforms in use by the City are at capacity limits and has reached the end of their supportable life. Acquiring new data storage equipment is necessary to maintain operations of all City departments. The Infrastructure Team within the Information Technology Department reviewed the capabilities of multiple storage platforms to identify the solution that will achieve the goals of low cost, long term, on-premise storage and the ability to migrate selected data to cloud storage providers where applicable. The proposed solution provides long term storage, access of files, and supporting data that includes files, application data, police body camera videos, police in-car videos, fire apparatus videos, and training materials.
The State of Minnesota acted as lead agency and competitively bid and awarded a contract to Dell EMC for the purchase of Computer Equipment: Storage Related Peripherals & Services. The State of Kansas is a Participating State that is authorized to utilize this contract. (NASPO contract# MNWNC-109/ State of Kansas Contract# 40403A).
A quote was provided by Sirius Computer Solutions, a local, assigned distributor of Dell EMC, based off of the cooperative agreement which exceeded the COOP contract’s discounted pricing.
Staff recommends award of contract to Sirius Computer Solutions.
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Financial Impact:
Estimated fiscal expenditure is $500,000 over five (5) years of which will be funded by the Technology Fund.
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Action Needed:
Acceptance of bid and consideration of award of contract to Sirius Computer Solutions.
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