STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Core
AGENDA DATE: August 13, 2025
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): Citywide
DEPARTMENT: Office of Procurement Services
EXECUTIVE: Donzell Gipson
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SUBJECT
Title
Authorize Supplemental Agreement No. 2 to increase the service contract with 22nd Century Technologies, Inc. for continued software defined wide area network technology solution for the Department of Information and Technology Services - Not to exceed $316,671.43, from $1,337,685.72 to $1,654,357.15 - Financing: Data Services Fund (subject to annual appropriations)
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BACKGROUND
This action does not encumber funds; the purpose of a service contract is to establish firm pricing for services, for a specific term, which are ordered on an as needed basis.
This Supplemental Agreement will provide for continued software defined wide area network technology solution for the Department of Information and Technology Services (ITS). This action will continue the use of a complete managed services that provides Fortinet Software Defined Wide Area Network routers (SDWAN) including virtual firewalls to support the State Fair Park Media Center and corresponding secondary internet circuit. SDWAN routers, as a managed service, provide redundancy, security and the software overlay needed to manage all secondary paths for the critical sites to allow network traffic to control bandwidth, provide backup functionality, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity functionality, and/or to augment our existing internet network connectivity throughout the selected sites. ITS will continue to use these SDWAN router/firewalls and software to ensure the City’s’ network will remain operable in case of a major outage at the primary datacenter. Fair Park network operations will benefit from the implementation of secondary circuits and their corresponding firewalls by virtue of providing the security and software management of the secondary internet connectivity to function as a backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, or supplemental circuit. The SDWAN routers/firewalls will manage the secondary circuits in the event of a disaster that renders the City’s data center inoperable. As such, the secondary SDWAN manages how the internet circuits are used to deliver network traffic that will allow for the provision of the most crucial services, such as public safety and water to Dallas residents. Some key benefits to implementing the tools include but not limited to:
• Moves the City into compliance with an audit finding from the “IBM Data Center Study and Evaluation Services Physical Facility Assessment”
• Ability to continue delivering key services despite a disaster striking the City
• Creates diversification of the City’s circuit provider to ensure a backup exists to the City’s current circuits
On November 10, 2015, the City Council authorized a living wage policy that requires contractors to pay their employees a “living wage” rate as established annually by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Living Wage Calculator for Dallas County by Resolution No. 15-2141. This contract renewal option includes the living wage of $22.05.
PRIOR ACTION/REVIEW (COUNCIL, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS)
On December 13, 2023, the City Council authorized a five-year cooperative purchasing agreement for software defined wide-area network technology solution for the Department of Information and Technology Services with 22nd Century Technologies, Inc. through the General Services Administration cooperative agreement by Resolution No. 23-1664.
FISCAL INFORMATION
|
Fund |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
Future Years |
|
Data Services Fund |
$0.00 |
$42,250.00 |
$274,421.43 |
LOCAL PARTICIPATION
|
Prime |
Status |
Workforce % |
|
22nd Century Technologies, Inc. |
Non-local |
0.00% |
OWNER/EXECUTIVE
22nd Century Technologies, Inc.
8251 Greensboro Drive
Suite 900
McLean, VA 22102
Anil Sharma, Chief Executive Officer