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PROPOSED CONTRACT AMENDMENT (TECHNOLOGY)
Department(s): Bureau of Technology, Bureau of Finance, Cook County Assessor
Vendor: Acxiom Corporation, Downers Grove, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to amend, increase, and extend contract
Good(s) or Service(s): Remote midrange hosting services
Current Contract Period: 5/1/2012 - 4/30/2017
Proposed Contract Extension Period: 5/1/2017 - 6/30/2019
Total Current Contract Amount Authority: $25,645,199.00
Original Approval (Board or Procurement): 12/14/2011, $23,203,710.00
Previous Board Increase(s) or Extension(s): 9/10/2012, $1,087,543.00; 5/8/2013, $1,353,946.00
Previous Chief Procurement Officer Increase(s) or Extension(s): N/A
This Increase Requested: $1,633,594.00
Potential Fiscal Impact: FY2015 $312,884, FY2016 $450,460, FY2017 $339,352, FY2018 $335,304, FY2019 $195,594
Accounts: 499-441
Contract Number(s): 11-88-061
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: Cook County has two 8-year-old IBM iSeries computers (one for production and one for testing) that support mission-critical financial, property, and criminal justice systems, and over 2,000 internal users. While many of these systems are being reengineered for other platforms (such as the ERP software that will replace the County's current JD Edwards One World system), the County anticipates needing iSeries capabilities for another 3 to 5 years. However, the County faces mounting risks in the next 3 to 5 years as the physical hardware and software become increasingly unsupportable.
Therefore, BOT, BOF and the Assessor respectfully request approval of this amendment to the County's current Acxiom contract, which will include hosting of the County's iSeries servers at Acxiom, where the County's mainframe is currently hosted. The increase...
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