Title
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING CONTRACT APPROVALS for the purpose of approving various multiyear contracts for the Office of Information Technology.
Background
This legislation is required under Section 819 of the Prince George’s County Charter, which mandates that multi-year contracts exceeding a total of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) must be approved by a resolution of the County Council. This resolution authorizes the County to enter into contracts for the continued use of Microsoft Suite of products, legacy mainframe maintenance, digitization services, Geographic Information System (GIS) licensing and hosting, desktop and telecommunication services, and agreements with resellers of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software. The specific vendors include:
• Accela, Inc., Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (doing business as Microsoft)
• Environmental Systems Research Institute (doing business as ESRI)
• CycloMedia Inc
• Earth Networks
• International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
• Open Text Public Sector Solutions, Inc.
• Pictometry International Corp. aka Eagle View
• System Analysis Program Development (SAP, Inc.)
• SAS Institute, Inc.
• Avaya Corporation (doing business as Avaya)
• Resellers of IT hardware - Carahsoft Technology Corporation, CDW Government, LLC. Software House International (SHI), ePlus Technology, Inc., NGEN, LLC, Oakland Consulting Group, Inc., GMG World Media, LLC, Immersive Concepts, LLC, Xerox Corporation, Mainline Information Systems.
Resellers of IT Software - Carahsoft Technology Corporation, CDW Government, LLC. Software House International (SHI), ePlus Technology, Inc., Finite Matters, LTD (Pattern Stream), NGEN, LLC, Oakland Consulting Group, Inc., Phoenix Software International, Inc.