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C. 88

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Ed Woo, Chief Information Officer
Date:	December 8, 2015

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Costa

County

Subject:

Purchase Order with AT&T for Cisco Equipment

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 12/08/2015

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Ed Woo 925-383-2688

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: December 8, 2015
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent or designee to execute, on behalf of the Chief Information Officer, a purchase order with AT&T Datacomm in an amount not to exceed $172,586 for the acquisition of Cisco equipment, in support of a hosted communication system for the Health Services Department.

FISCAL IMPACT:

$172,586; The project cost is charged out to the Health Services Department via DoIT's billing process.

BACKGROUND:

The Department of Information Technology's Telecommunication Division is in the process of moving to a Cloud Hosted Internet Protocol Communication system, allowing for greater flexibility, disaster recovery, and enhanced use of unified communications. This will provide for a more reliable office telephone service.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The current County telephone system is 100% installed locally within the County buildings, which does not allow for recovery in case of a local building disaster incident. Callers would receive an error tone because the telephone system will be offline during such incident. With a cloud hosted telephone service, we will be able to maintain in-bound and out-bound calling during local and regional disasters.