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Item # 13
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Staff Report
April 19, 2022
TOPIC: Award Purchase Order to Presidio Networked Solutions
AGENDA TITLE:
Award a Purchase Order in the Amount of $387,809 to Presidio Networked Solutions for
Data Center Server and Storage Infrastructure Equipment (Specification No. 22-014)
(Non-General Fund)
RECOMMENDED ACTION
Award a purchase order to Presidio Networked Solutions for HPE Disaggregated
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Equipment (dHCI), in the amount of $387,809, subject to
non-substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney.
DISCUSSION
The Information Technology (IT) Department provides support to both City Hall and the
Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) data centers, which together house the largest
concentration of computer systems used to support City operations. These systems
include the City’s financial systems, payroll system, tax systems, permitting system,
public safety systems, email system, document management system, and all file share
storage.
Each of the data centers has servers that make up a virtual server environment as well
as a storage area network (SAN) that provides the data storage. The two SAN
environments are both nearing the end of their useful lives as are many of the physical
servers used to house the virtual servers and will no longer be supported by the vendor.
To replace the end-of-life servers and SAN environments, staff recommends moving to a
Disaggregated Hyperconverged Infrastructure (dHCI). dHCI is a scalable, powerful
solution that integrates software defined compute and storage with automation to deliver
simplicity, ease of use, and better economics—by collapsing silos and removing
complexity. The simplicity of the dHCI environment will allow staff to more finely tune the
ratio of compute-to-storage resources, thus reducing overprovisioning and making more
efficient use of available resources. The procurement includes one dHCI environment for
each of the two City data centers.
Award Purchase Order to Presidio Networked Solutions
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The Notice Inviting Bids was advertised on January 28, 2022, on the City’s online bid
management and publication system. A summary of the bid invitation and bids received
is as follows:
396 Vendors were notified
16 Santa Ana vendors were notified
29 Vendors downloaded the bid packet
4 Bids received
0 Bids received from Santa Ana vendors
The bids were received and opened on February 17, 2022, and evaluated (Exhibit 1). The
bids submitted by Presidio Networked Solutions located in Pleasanton, California was
determined to be responsive and met the City’s requirements.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
There is no environmental impact associated with this action.
FISCAL IMPACT
Funds in the amount of $387,809 are available for expenditure in the current Fiscal Year
2021-22 budget as follows:
Fiscal
Year
Accounting
Unit –
Account#
Fund
Description
Accounting Unit,
Account Description
Amount
FY 21-22 10920149-
66400
Information
Technology
IT Projects, Machinery &
Equipment
$387,809
Total $387,809
Submitted By: Jack Ciulla, Chief Technology Innovations Officer
Approved By: Kristine Ridge, City Manager