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C. 74

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	David O. Livingston, Sheriff-Coroner
Date:	April 12, 2016

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Costa

County

Subject:

Purchase Order for Software - Dell

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 04/12/2016

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:	Liz Arbuckle (925) 335-1529
cc:	Liz Arbuckle Heike Anderson Tim Ewell

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: April 12, 2016
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent to execute, on behalf of the Sheriff-Coroner, a purchase order with Dell Inc., in an amount not to exceed $196,572 to purchase VMWare Horizon virtual desktop software for the Office of the Sheriff.

FISCAL IMPACT:

$196,572. 100% General Fund; Budgeted

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The Sheriff's Office will be unable to execute the purchase order with VMWare.

BACKGROUND:

Dell's VMWare Horizon is a virtual desktop software which would enable all computer processing to occur on the Office of the Sheriff Tech Services site. The physical network would run at gigabit speed as opposed to the Office of the Sheriff's mobile fleet that currently transfers data across a wireless network at cellular speeds. The virtual desktop software allows for maps and images that are very critical to first responders to be updated very quickly. This also means that there is no data stored on local computers, but rather at the Sheriff's Tech Services Data Center.

This software gives Tech Services the ability to update computers throughout the department quickly and easily, which enables maintenance of FBI and DOJ compliancy without the need to access each computer individually.

The ability to provide these resources to our officers in the field is paramount to officer and public safety, while saving costs and support time.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

No impact.