From
Keshnel Penny, Chief Information Officer
Title
Purchase of two Isilon NL410 144TB storage nodes for the City Hall and Public Safety Building from Netsync Network Solutions and installation through the national inter-local agreements with DIR in the total amount of $90,176.47
Presenter
Keshnel Penny, Chief Information Officer
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
To facilitate the demand for additional storage resources and enhance disaster recovery between the City’s two datacenters, it is necessary to add one additional Isilon NL410 144TB storage node to each of our datacenters. Adding these storage nodes will increase storage for City building security cameras, Server backups, emails and files. In addition, it will increase the reliability, integrity, and availability of the City data with more space for redundancy.
Chapter 271.102 of the Local Government Code authorizes local governments to participate in a cooperative purchasing program with another local government or local cooperative organization. In lieu of competitive bidding, items and services may be purchased through such agreements as the agreements have already been bid by the sponsoring entity or agency. The City of Grand Prairie has master inter-local cooperative agreements with various entities including DIR.
DIR provides statewide leadership and oversight for management of government information and communications technology. DIR has served in a leadership role to facilitate the state’s economic competitiveness through its ability to deliver quality information resources commodities and services at the lowest prices and best value for state and local government as well as the K-12 public and higher education systems
The City Hall and Public Safety Building's new Isilon NL410 144TB storage nodes were each quoted at $42,443.59 from Netsync Network Solutions on DIR contract DIR-TSO-2634-EMC expiring September 10, 2018. Installation of both Dell EMC Isilons was quoted at $5,289.2...
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