Recommend approval to purchase network maintenance services, and equipment from Layer3 Communications^(B) in the amount of $205,054.23.

The Department of Information Technology is using this purchase for hardware and software procurement associated with Capital Projects. The purchase includes maintenance for designated equipment installation with Juniper, Aruba, and Palo Alto networks. These services and products will support the parking garage installations, the Interchange Court project and Fire Station 14 (Highlands). This purchase ensures that public-facing services to City citizens have reliable infrastructure support and sustain the capital project needs. These projects are CoS, (Class of Service) that will allow a way to manage traffic in a network by grouping together and treating each as a class of network service with priority. This means that instead of manually managing the network, the network can automatically operate with little interruption allowing internet, devices using internet, people streaming, call systems, camera servers and anything operating off of network connections to operate and be prioritized.

This purchase will be made through a cooperative purchasing agreement with The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS). The contract was competitively bid by TIPS and awarded to Layer 3 Communications LLC. The contract, 200105 expires on May 31, 2023. Cooperative purchasing is authorized as an appropriate procurement method in Division 10 Section 4-4152 of the City of Savannah’s purchasing ordinance.

(B) indicates local, non-DBE owned business.

Approval