Title
Information Technology Contract Professional Services
Action
Action:
A. Approve contracts for Information Technology Professional Services for an initial term of one year with the following Service Providers:
? Insight Global, LLC,
? JOLT Advantage Group, LLC, and
B. Authorize the City Manager to renew the contracts for up to two, one-year terms with possible price adjustments and to amend the contracts consistent with the purpose for which the contracts were approved.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Jeffrey Stovall, Innovation and Technology
Explanation
* The City maintains citywide contracts with a number of vendors to provide Information Technology (IT) Professional Services. Although these contracts are designed to meet most commonly-required staffing needs, occasionally specialized staff will be required who are not available through these contracts.
* Innovation and Technology has a need for highly specialized technical staff to support specific IT projects and initiatives. After seeking qualified candidates from the existing citywide vendors, Innovation and Technology determined that the advanced skill sets are not currently available from those vendors.
* The contractors are needed to fill three positions for work on two Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects:
* Business Intelligence (BI) Developer (1 position)
* User Productivity Kit (UPK) Developers (2 positions)
* The BI Developer will develop and enhance the Enterprise Data Warehouse and Tableau Dashboard. The work performed is in support of the ERP Data and Reporting project.
* The UPK Developers will use a content development, deployment, and maintenance platform to facilitate ERP end user training for the ERP Upgrade project. Training materials, job aids, and instructor manuals will be produced. The work product will simplify knowledge transfer between project teams and the ERP end users.
* Insight Global and JOLT Advantage Group have provided qualified personnel who have been engaged...
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