To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Purchase Order with Computacenter United States Inc.
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent, or designee, to execute on behalf of the Health Services Director, a purchase order with Computacenter United States Inc., in an amount not to exceed $398,708 for the purchase of Dell PowerEdge Servers and five years of hardware and software support and maintenance services for the period from April 1, 2024 through May 1, 2029.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this action will result in a one-time hardware expenditure and maintenance support expenditures of up to $398,708 over a 61-month period and will be funded by Hospital Enterprise Fund I revenues.
BACKGROUND:
Contra Costa Health (CCH) continues to migrate desktops and individual productivity into virtual desktop and cloud-based platforms. This new cluster represents redundant capacity for some 2500 desktops. This will allow significantly improved disaster resilience providing virtual desktop to users currently working with Legacy PCs thereby extending the useful life of those desktop PCs.
These servers are also required to provide capacity for the upcoming Windows 11 replacement efforts, as some 2,000 of the current PC's do not meet the hardware compatibility requirements. Migrating those workloads to these servers will obviate a $2,000,000 PC purchase, as well as all the labor required to deploy them.
On February 14th, 2017, the Board approved agenda C.51 to execute a purchase order with Dell Marketing L.P and Dell's Customer Purchase Agreement, which also governs this purchase.
On October 24th, 2023, the Board approved agenda C.52 to execute purchase order 29156 with Citrix and Computacenter and Computacenter's Master Services Agreement, which also governs this purchase.
From October 13, 2023 through October 27, 2023 a Request for Pro...
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