SUBJECT/RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve a purchase order to Crown Castle, Inc., of Clearwater, FL, for internet service provision for the City’s wide-area network in a not-to-exceed amount of $174,240.00 for a 36-month term ending June 30, 2024 and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
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SUMMARY:
The City’s computer infrastructure utilizes Crown Castle, Inc. (Crown Castle) as one of three internet service providers (ISP) on its wide-area-network (WAN) for support of enterprise operations.
This is a 36-month renewal of our existing services from this provider.
Recent changes in facility services at the Emergency Operations Center & Data Center, as well as anticipated changes in technology services (Telephone/VoIP), have increased bandwidth requirements in support of City operations.
Crown Castle will be providing two separate connections on the City’s network to create redundancy and improve the City’s resiliency of service at these facilities.
The secondary connection from Crown Castle to our WAN architecture provides an additional 500Mbps capacity.
Both the primary and secondary ISP connection have a monthly recurring charge of $2,200.00 ($79,200 total per ISP connection). An additional 10% ($15,840.00) contingency has been added for ancillary services.
APPROPRIATION CODE AND AMOUNT:
Funds for this contract are available in the Information Technology budget, cost code 5559862-530300, Contractual Services.