Title
Resolution to Approve a Purchase Order to Washtenaw County for City’s FY2011 Portion of Shared Technology Services ($178,678.00)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and action is a resolution to approve a Purchase Order with Washtenaw County for the City of Ann Arbor’s FY2011 portion of shared technology services including centralized storage, a common Infrastructure Manager, shared PTI subscription and internet connection services. By sharing the costs for these common technologies, the City and County are collectively lowering the taxpayer costs for technology.
The shared centralized storage provides the City with access to a common storage platform that allows further City and County collaborations and consolidations, includes access to a robust backup and recovery infrastructure and generally lowers the City’s Total Cost of Ownership for this type of platform.
Sharing a single infrastructure manager between the City and County provides common and consistent technical leadership, strategy development and Information technology operations to both organizations for a reduced cost.
Sharing a Public Technology Institute (PTI) membership provides a unique opportunity to both the City and the County to jointly access and develop best practices around technology management, governance and policy issues at a reduced cost to both organizations.
The shared Merit internet connection optimizes the costs associated with providing internet connectivity by leveraging common hardware, network infrastructure and services.
The City’s portion of shared technology costs are broken down as follows:
Shared Central Storage Usage - $96,500.00
Shared Salary Network Mgr - $77,178.00
Shared PTI membership - $5,000.00
Staff
Prepared by Dan Rainey, Director, Information Technology Service Unit
Reviewed by Tom Crawford, CFO and Financial and Administrative Services
Administrator
Approved by Roger W. Fraser, City Administrator
Body
Whereas, The City of Ann Arbor Informatio...
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