DATE: June 4, 2024
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Edward Hill, Chief Operating Officer/Interim Director of Internal Services/Chief Information Officer
SUBJECT: Agreement with Sable Computer Inc. dba KIS
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a retroactive Agreement with Sable Computer Inc. dba KIS for continued subscription licensing of VMware's vSphere Foundation's enterprise level workload platform and Horizon Universal platform, effective January 19, 2024, not to exceed five consecutive years, which includes a three-year base contract and two optional one-year extensions, total not to exceed $2,023,357.
REPORT
There is no additional Net County Cost associated with the recommended action, which will allow the Internal Services Department, Information Technology Division (ISD-IT) to contract with Sable Computer Inc. dba KIS (KIS) for subscription licensing for VMware's vSphere Foundation's enterprise level workload platform, and for Horizon Universal platform, which provide a virtualized environment used to create server systems and virtual desktops for the County. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
Should your Board not approve the recommended action, ISD-IT would not be able to continue to provide a virtualized environment used to create server systems and virtual desktops for the County, which would negatively impact servers and desktops Countywide, by causing servers and 400 virtual desktops to go offline until a new virtualized environment can be procured and implemented.
RETROACTIVE AGREEMENT:
The recommended agreement is retroactive to January 19, 2024, due to the manufacturer (VMware) being sold to Broadcom in November of 2023. This transition process caused the County significant administrative delays in working with the manufacturer. These administrative delays resulted in the cancelation and rebid of the informal Request for Quotation (RFQ) and an extension of the bid close date. As a r...
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