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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />DECEMBER 20, 2010 <br />TITLE <br />AGREEMENT RENEWALS FOR <br />TEMPORARY CONSULTING <br />SERVICES FOR INFORMATION <br />TECHNOLOGY <br />J <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />? As Recommended <br />? As Amended <br />? Ordinance on 151 Reading <br />? Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />? Implementing Resolution <br />? Set Public Hearing For_ <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Approve and authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to execute the attached <br />agreement renewals for temporary consulting services for information technology in a total <br />aggregate amount not to exceed $3,290,000 for a one-year term or until the funds are expended, <br />subject to non-substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney with the <br />following vendors: <br />Concorde Consulting, Inc. <br />SoftMaster, Inc. <br />The Comdyn Group, Inc. <br />Telfords <br />DISCUSSION <br />The use of temporary contractors specialized in information technology continues to be an essential <br />approach to the support of City operations. Contract personnel provide software application <br />development and support; business application and project consulting; telecommunications <br />services; and computer and networking services. The use of these services maximizes the <br />effectiveness of staff resources in the Information Services Division (ISD). This approach ensures <br />timely completion of City information projects and reduces interruptions to the computer <br />infrastructure system. <br />These agreements provide highly skilled technology contractors who are essential in providing <br />specialized assistance to City departments in the design, development and implementation of the <br />City's information management systems. They support some 1,800 plus end-users; three each <br />Enterprise client/server-based and web-based business systems; the City's wide area network <br />including the connection to the Internet; eleven department local area networks; 185 servers in <br />two data centers (the City Hall data center and the SAPD data center) with over 65 terabytes of <br />data capacity; and 200 managed network switch es/fi rewal Is/routers and over 50 high speed data <br />circuits supporting 38 City operating locations. Software applications developed and supported <br />by these contractors included the Santa Ana Property Information Network (SAPIN), the <br />25C-1