Title
Information Technology Contract Professional Services
Action
Action:
Authorize the City Manager to award unit price contracts for information technology contract professional services for up to two years, with the following service providers:
* Ciber, Inc.,
* Digital Intelligence Systems, LLC d/b/a DISYS, and
* Skybridge Global
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Robert Campbell, Management & Financial Services
Jeffrey Stovall, Innovation & Technology
Explanation
* On September 27, 2010, the City Council approved contracts for citywide information technology contract professional services for up to five years with 17 vendors, including the three vendors listed in the action above.
* On September 28, 2015, the City Council awarded new contracts to 18 vendors for citywide information technology contract professional services.
* None of the three service providers listed in the action section of this item were included in the award on September 28, 2015. However, multiple departments, including Innovation & Technology, Human Resources, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, and Charlotte Water, have a need to retain services from certain individual contractors assigned to work on specific City projects pursuant to the contracts already in place with these three service providers.
* The City uses the contracted service providers to obtain a variety of information technology contract professional services, including project management, application and testing specialist, and information security engineer services.
* Contractors are generally used on a relatively short-term basis and provide technology expertise where it would be inefficient for the City to hire full-time equivalent staff due to the specific skill sets required and/or the sporadic nature of the work.
* These contracts are not intended for long-term projects that would be handled by a separate competitive process or potentially by pursuing full-time equivalent City positions....
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