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PROPOSED CONTRACT AMENDMENT (TECHNOLOGY)
Department(s): Cook County Treasurer
Vendor: Server Central, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to extend, and increase contract
Good(s) or Service(s): Managed storage service, web hosting and maintenance
Original Contract Period: 3/14/2012 - 3/13/2015
Proposed Contract Period Extension: 3/14/2015 - 12/31/2015
Total Current Contract Amount Authority: $146,463.00
Original Approval (Board or Procurement): 3/13/2012, $146,463.00
Previous Board Increase(s) or Extension(s): N/A
Previous Chief Procurement Officer Increase(s) or Extension(s): N/A
This Increase Requested: $34,191.00
Potential Fiscal Impact: FY 2015 $34,191.00
Accounts: 534-260
Contract Number(s): 11-45-2766
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Bureau of Technology concurs.
Summary: Server Central Inc. has maintained and supported the critical infrastructure and IP network for the Cook County Treasurer’s Office (CCTO) to ensure operations of external website servers since March 2012. In addition to providing 7x24, Server Central Inc. provides the following managed services for the CCTO:
1) Managed redundant Switches - Deploy, configure and manage client switches
2) Managed redundant Firewalls - Deploy, configure and manage client firewalls
3) Managed Redundant Load Balancers - Deploy, configure and manage client load balancers
4) Managed Redundant Storage - Deploy, configure and manage client network storage
5) Monitoring - Monitoring, reporting and custom alerts of our, or ServerCentral owned equipment.
6) Managed DDOS - Deploy, configure and manage a DDoS mitigation offering.
This is a Sole Source Procurement pursuant to Section 34-139 of the Cook County Procurement Code
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