City Council

Agenda Request

Agenda Of:

10-17-06

Agenda Request No:

III D

Initiated By:

William Harvey,

Operations Manager

Responsible Department:

Information Technology

Presented By:

Gary McFarland, Director of

Information Technology

Department Head:

Gary McFarland,

Director  

 

 

Additional Department. Head (s):

 

 

 

 

Subject / Proceeding:

purchase novell mla (master license agreement) from shi-government solutions

Exhibits:

SHI Pricing Proposal

 

Clearances

Approval

Legal:

Joe Morris,

City Attorney

Executive Director:

N\A

 

Purchasing:

Cindy Stanfield

Administrative Services Director

Asst. City Manager:

David E. Ellison

Budget:

Jennifer Brown

Assistant Fiscal Services Director

City Manager:

Allen Bogard

Budget

Expenditure Required:  $

29,350.84

Amount Budgeted/Reallocation:  $

29,350.84

Additional Appropriation:  $

N/A

Recommended Action

Approve the purchase of the Novell Master License agreement from SHI – Government Solutions in the amount of $29,350.84.

Executive Summary

Novell Network software products are used for computer servers, user network access, E-mail, firewall and desktop management.  Together, they represent an integrated system of citywide network services and management tools. This request is for the annual software maintenance renewal of those products in the amount of $29,350.84 using a Master License Agreement (MLA).  The MLA ensures the city has the latest technological offerings related to Novell Network products and allows access to their best and safest versions of software.  It also includes incremental updates and access to technical support systems.  We have been using Novell Netware products since the inception of the network in 1993.

 

Annually, a software audit is performed by the city to determine its license counts and corresponding maintenance costs.  Based on that audit, the MLA is adjusted to ensure license compliance citywide.  This year Novell changed their audit procedures that determine maintenance counts.  Previous exemptions are no longer available and the resulting increase to maintenance counts requires us to pay retroactively on as many as 34 instances over the past three years.  The cost of retro-activating maintenance over this period of time amounts to an increase of $1,313.52, which is approximately half the cost of buying new ones outright.  The end result is that we will be in compliance under the new auditing procedures.

 

The MLA is offered by SHI – Government Solutions under the umbrella of the State of Texas Department of Information Resources cooperative contract # DIR-SDD-198 (expires 05/26/07) and it meets the competitive bidding requirement.

 

Exhibits

 

SHI

 

Pricing Proposal

Quotation #:  

1858190

Created On:  

Oct-10-2006

Valid Until:  

Oct-31-2006


 


City of Sugar Land

 

Account Representative


 


WILL HARVEY

2700 Town Center Blvd N
Sugar Land, TX 77479

Phone: 

 

Fax:

 

Email:

wharvey@sugarlandtx.gov

 

Robert Petrucelli

1250 Capital of Texas Hwy South,
Suite I-350
Austin, TX 78746

Phone: 

800-845-6801

Fax:

512-732-0232

Email:

Robert_Petrucelli@shi.com

All Prices are in US Dollar(USD)

 

Product

Qty

Retail

Your Price

Total

 


1

Novell Open Enterprise Server 1-User 1-Year Maintenance
   NOVELL MLA - STATE OF TEXAS - Part#: 877-000157

526

$40.00

$20.41

$10,735.66

 


2

GroupWise 1-User 1-Year Maintenance
   NOVELL MLA - STATE OF TEXAS - Part#: 877-000192
   Note: 9/1/03-8/31/04

21

$33.00

$16.84

$353.64

 


3

GroupWise 1-User 1-Year Maintenance
   NOVELL MLA - STATE OF TEXAS - Part#: 877-000192
   Note: 9/1/04-8/31/05

23

$33.00

$16.84

$387.32

 


4

GroupWise 1-User 1-Year Maintenance
   NOVELL MLA - STATE OF TEXAS - Part#: 877-000192
   Note: 9/1/05-8/31/06

34

$33.00

$16.84

$572.56

 


5

GroupWise 1-User 1-Year Maintenance
   NOVELL MLA - STATE OF TEXAS - Part#: 877-000192

581

$33.00

$16.84

$9,784.04

 


6

Novell BorderManager 1-User 1-Year Maintenance
   NOVELL MLA - STATE OF TEXAS - Part#: 877-000906

526

$10.00

$5.10

$2,682.60

 


7

ZENworks Desktop Management 1-Device/User 1-Year Maintenance
   NOVELL MLA - STATE OF TEXAS - Part#: 877-000204

526

$17.00

$8.67

$4,560.42

 


8

Activation Kit Software Evaluation And Development Library: Standard
   Novell MLA Customer Education and Support - Part#: 873-008058

1

$299.00

$274.60

$274.60

 


Total

$29,350.84

 

Additional Comments


 


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