STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Core
AGENDA DATE: August 13, 2025
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): Citywide
DEPARTMENT: Office of Procurement Services
EXECUTIVE: Donzell Gipson
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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 connect...
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