STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Government Performance & Financial Management
AGENDA DATE: June 28, 2023
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Office of Procurement Services
EXECUTIVE: Jack Ireland
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SUBJECT
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Authorize Supplemental Agreement No. 5 to increase the contract with International Business Machines Corporation dba IBM Corporation to upgrade the City's data aggregation platform software for the Department of Information and Technology Services - Not to exceed $328,394.00, from $4,791,211.89 to $5,119,605.89 - Financing: Information Technology Equipment 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 an increase to the contract with International Business Machines Corporation dba IBM Corporation, to upgrade the City's data aggregation platform software for the Department of Information and Technology Services. International Business Machines Corporation dba IBM Corporation will upgrade the City's data aggregation platform environments to the latest versions and apply bug fixes to Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and Cloudera. The platform (Big Data) assists the City in sharing, analyzing, and visualizing information across multiple departments to support data driven decisions. Big Data provides a shared data environment that fosters better insight into data collected by various City systems and the tools necessary to analyze centralized data.
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 inclu...
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