STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Government Performance and Financial Management
AGENDA DATE: December 11, 2024
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): N/A
DEPARTMENT: City Attorney's Office
EXECUTIVE: Tammy L. Palomino
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a three-year cooperative purchasing service price agreement for litigation and pre-litigation support including legal document reproduction services, electronically stored information and electronic discovery services, and trial and pretrial support services for the City Attorney's Office with Delphi Legal Technologies, Inc. through the interlocal cooperative agreement with Dallas Area Rapid Transit - Estimated amount of $300,000.00 - Financing: Liability Reserve Fund (subject to annual appropriations)
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BACKGROUND
This action does not encumber funds; the purpose of a service price agreement is to establish firm pricing for services, for a specific term, which are ordered on an as needed basis according to annual budgetary appropriations. The estimated amount is intended as guidance rather than a cap on spending under the agreement, so that actual need combined with the amount budgeted will determine the amount spent under this agreement. This cooperative purchasing service price agreement will provide the City Attorney's Office with timely and high-quality electronic data discovery production, legal document reproduction, and copying services required to handle lawsuits and claims. Specific litigation support services that will be available include:
* Printing, binding
* Copying and finishing services
* Digitalization of paper documents
* Conversion of digital files into alternative formats
* Oversized maps, surveys, trial and hearing graphics and exhibits
* Media duplication
* Electronically stored information (ESI) and electronic discovery (e-discovery) services
o Data collection and preservation
o Data processing and culling
o Load file creation
o Database hosting, retrie...
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