| | | | | | | | Action Item - 16.
Title: Contract with Dell Marketing, L.P., for a Computing and Storage Solution ($3,495,500)
Board of Education Meeting Date: 10/17/2019
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| | | | | | | | Action under consideration
| | The Administration recommends that the Board of Education authorize The School District of Philadelphia, through the Superintendent or his designee, to execute and perform a contract, subject to funding, as follows:
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Dell Marketing, L.P.
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Acquisition, implementation and ongoing maintenance of district-wide centralized computing and storage infrastructure, including disaster recovery resources
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| | | | | | | | | | Start date: 10/18/2019
| | | End date: 10/17/2024
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| | | | | | | | | | Compensation not to exceed: $3,495,500
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| | | | | | | | | | Location:
Administrative Office(s)
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| | | | | | | | | | Description:
This contract award will replace the School District's aging centralized enterprise computing and storage infrastructure. The District houses very large amounts of data in two redundant technology data centers at opposing ends of the City, that support the secure, reliable, and efficient storage of everything from individual user computer desktops to large-scale centralized application databases. Such operational systems include web, collaboration, student/parent/employee portal, document repository, data warehouse, security, telecommunications, analytics (Qlik), food management, and several other related services.
The contract will include all hardware, software, installation, and ongoing maintenance, for a period of five (5) years. The proposed solution positions the District’s compute and storage solution to be cloud-enabled, thus giving the District the flexibility to seamlessly migrate computer resources between on premise and cloud computing environments as computing resource needs change. Additionally, the selected storage platform will streamline and automate the disaster recovery process, reducing restoration of key District-wide information services from approximately 24 hours, down to less than 30 minutes. Federal Universal Service subsidy reimbursements will be used to partially fund this contract.
| | | Anchor Goal(s) Supported: Other Implement effective, aligned business processes
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| | | | | | | | | | Funding Source(s):
FY19-20 Capital, Operating and Universal Service Fund |
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| | | | | | | | | | Office Originating Request: Information Technology
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