From
Bob O'Neal, Information Technology Director
Title
Contract with Absolute Consulting for Finance/Human Resource System Upgrade in the amount of $104,760
Presenter
Bob O'Neal, Information Technology Director
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
Our Finance and Human Resources departments use Lawson software to support the needs of the City and its employees. Support for our current version of Lawson, Version 9, expires in May 2016. The City is required to update the software to the most current version, Version 10, in order to maintain Lawson support.
City staff needs additional resources and technical expertise to migrate all of our Lawson business processes to Version 10. Team Absolute, the City's current Lawson technical support vendor, is very familiar with our current software configuration and has the expertise to support this implementation. City of Grand Prairie Information Technology support staff recommends contracting with Team Absolute to upgrade our current Lawson software from version 9 to version 10. The installation work would occur over the summer with system testing beginning in the fall. Our "go-live" date is expected in February 2016. Cost for this implementation service is $104,760.
Financial Consideration
Funding for a contract with Absolute Consulting in the amount of $104,760 is available in the 153210-68420.