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HomeMy WebLinkAboutR-93-0771J-93-883 12/9/93 RESOLUTION NO. 9 3 - 771 A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE PURCHASE OF A-17 MAINFRAME PERIPHERAL HARDWARE/SOFTWARE, ASSOCIATED SUPPORT EQUIPMENT, AND ONGOING MAINTENANCE FOR SAID EQUIPMENT FROM UNISYS CORPORATION, UNDER EXISTING STATE OF FLORIDA CONTRACT NOS. 250-050-93-1 AND 250-040-92-1, FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $896,000, PLUS ANY FINANCE CHARGES, SAID PURCHASE TO REPLACE EXISTING OUTDATED EQUIPMENT; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE GENERAL BUDGET OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, COMPUTER DIVISION; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE THE NECESSARY PURCHASE ORDER(S) FOR SAID PURPOSE. WHEREAS, the City of Miami needs to replace its outdated A-17 mainframe peripheral hardware/software and associated equipment; and WHEREAS, the purchase of new equipment will provide the City with new hardware while realizing a net savings of $130,000 over a five-year period; and WHEREAS, the Department of Management and Budget has determined that utilizing the existing State of Florida contracts is the most economical way to acquire the needed computer equipment; and WHEREAS, the new equipment will provide at least a fifty percent (50%) increase in performance and almost a sixty percent (60%) increase in storage capacity compared to the City's current operation; Note: This Resolution was passed and adopted subject to the Department sitting down with Vice Mayor Dawkins to explain and review the herein instrument, and obtain his concurrence. CITY coves 'SS ox _ KEETING OF DEC 1 6 1993 Raoolution No. 93- 771 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA: i Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the Preamble to this Resolution are hereby adopted by reference thereto and incorporated herein as if fully set forth in this Section. Section 2. The purchase of A-17 mainframe peripheral hardware/software, associated support equipment, and ongoing maintenance for said equipment is hereby approved from Unisys Corporation, under existing State of Florida Contract Nos. 250-050-93-1 and 250-040-92-1, for an amount not to exceed $896,000, plus any finance charges, said equipment to replace existing outdated equipment, with funds therefor hereby allocated from the General Budget of the Department of Management and Budget, Computer Division for said purchase. Section 3. The City Manager is hereby authorized`/ to instruct the Chief Procurement Officer to issue the necessary purchase order(s) for said purpose. Section 4. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption. The herein authorization is further subject to compliance with all requirements that may be imposed by the City Attorney, including but not limited to those prescribed by applicable City Charter and Code provisions. 93- 771 -2- PASSED AND ADOPTED this 16th day of December 1993. TEPHEN P. JtLARK, MAYOR ATT MAT Y HIRAI CITY CLERK BUDGETARY REVIEW: MANOHAR S. SU N ASSISTANT CIT A GER PREPARED AND APPROVED BY: r CARMEN L. LEON ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS: A: QUIN J)ONW , I I I CITY ATTORNEY BSS:M4035 93- 771 -3- DEC- 9-93 THU 11:31 CITY OF MIAMI BUDGET F" KIn an;;7QR0A1 P, U 1 CITY OF MIA} INTEROFFICE 1 To! Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission" SUBJECT: FROM: REFERENCE$: Ces dio Cit er ENCLOSURES: L �nn� RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING REPLACEMENT OF OUTDATED A17 MAINFRAME PERIPHERAL HARDWARE/SOrTWAREF ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND MAINTENANCE It is recommended that the City Commission adopt the attached resolution authorizing the replacement and on -going maintenance of the City's mainframe peripheral computer equipment thereby realizing a net savings of approximately $130,000 over a period of five (5) years. The new equipment will replace the 10 year old disk drives and magnetic tape drives, the data communications processors, outdated personal computers and will increase the A-17's RAM memory. The new peripheral equipment is being purchase from the Unisys Corporation under the State of Florida contract number 250-050-93-1 and 250-040-93-1. The equipment/software and maintenance cost is not to exceed $896,000 plus any finance charges. This cost will be offset by the savings in maintenance and environmental coats which over a 5 year period represents a net savings of approximately $130,000. BACKGROUND The current disk, tape and network communications processors are over ten (10) years old. This equipment is expensive to operate, unreliable, and has inadequate performance characteristics. The storage requirements of the computer systems continue to increase. Lack of disk storage has cause interruptions in servicing city users. There is no floor space available for equipment expansion in the computer. room. The majority of space is taken up by the present disk drives and associated equipment. The new disk technology will provide us with at least a 50% increase , in performance throughput. The storage capacity will increase by 58% while the reliability of the equipment is based on an MTBF of 300,000 hours. The new tape drives utilize the cartridge system versus the open reel. The cartridge drives hold more data (over 50% increase) and require less ra.ck space for storage (75% less). Two of the cartridge drives will be fitted with autoloaders reducing operator intervention in mounting scratch tapes. The cartridge tapes cost half as much as the open reel tape. 93- 771 "�� � u V � I I V ♦• u � V• i V� I l a l���• � I.l u v r 1 1 .111 11V1 VVVVIVVVVa .l Page 2 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING REPLACEMENT OF OUTDATED A17 MAINtRAME PERIPHERAL HARDWARE/SOFTWARE, ASSOCATED EQUIPMENT AND MAINTENANCE The current network communication processors limit the ability to communicate with other computer systems. There is no software available to perform proactive network management or problem resolution. The new communication processors will take the network processing workload off of the mainframe computer providing more resource to the on-line users. The available protocols supported by these new communication processors will allow epmmunications to a wide variety of different computers. The number of active on-line programs and libraries has tripled since the purchase of the A-17. The additional memory will allow these programs to operate at a more optimum level and alleviate sporadic degradation in system response times. ' f I 9 3 - '7'71 1"