CITY MANAGER AUTHORITY PROCUREMENT AWARDS
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the award of Cooperative Procurement 22-192, NetMotion Complete, to AT&T Mobility for an amount not to exceed $41,652 and for a one year term
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DEPARTMENT: Information Technology
SUBMITTED BY: Jacqueline Nguyen, Director
BACKGROUND:
The Information Technology (IT) Department supports the laptop computers used by City staff. These personal computers need to access the City's virtual private network (VPN), so that staff can access and run various applications such as email, Microsoft Teams and OnBase using a VPN client safely both in and out of the office. IT currently supports several VPN clients because of tradeoffs in staff requirements, features and costs. NetMotion' s mobility client is one of these VPN clients and it is particularly well suited for mobile workers and laptops in police squad cars and field vehicles, which use mobile data networks. NetMotion excels at supporting applications running on cellular data networks such as CAD/RMS MCT applications used by Police and Fire. NetMotion also excels at monitoring and measuring performance of cellular data networks such as the Verizon data network used by Police and Fire.
DISCUSSION:
The City maintains annual subscription licenses of NetMotion Complete for 445 devices. NetMotion Complete includes Mobility, Diagnostics and MobileIQ. This license package includes the software upgrades, maintenance, and support for the client and server-based software within this license package. This package includes diagnostics and analytics that help us measure and monitor the performance of our cellular data network services such as those from Verizon.
Staff has identified an approved cooperative contract, Illinois State Cooperative Contract 18-448DOIT-ADMIN-P-367 (formerly CMS793372S) through AT&T Mobility, for the procurement of NetMotion Complete. The term of the contract is from June 19, 2022 to June 18, 2023.
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