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C. 70

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Marc Shorr, Chief Information Officer
Date:	May 23, 2023

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Purchase Order with AT&T for Inventory Assessment

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 05/23/2023

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Ken Carlson, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Sarah Bunnell, 925-608-4023

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: May 23, 2023
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent to execute, on behalf of the Chief Information Officer, a purchase order with AT&T Corp. utilizing the California Department of Technology Agreement with AT&T Corp, for an amount not to exceed $298,000 to conduct a physical network inventory for the County’s Wide Area Network for the period May 24, 2023 through August 1, 2023.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The cost for this contract is within the Department of Information Technology’s budget (100% User Departments).

BACKGROUND:

The Department of Information Technology (DoIT) maintains and operates a large Wide Area Network (WAN) that is utilized by all departments on a daily basis to conduct County business. The WAN is central to the critical infrastructure that is managed by DoIT. DoIT is continuing to make cybersecurity improvements to the County’s WAN to ensure it is properly defended from cyber-attacks. A key element of this process to the develop a comprehensive inventory of all networking equipment that comprise the County’s WAN. To accomplish this key deliverable, DoIT has engaged AT&T Engineering Services to assist DoIT to conduct the full physical inventory of all equipment that comprise the WAN and provide DoIT with a comprehensive document detailing each piece of equipment, type, model, location, and use case. This document will be critical for DoIT’s Cybersecurity and WAN Teams to quickly identify and remediate any cybersecurity or WAN related issues that could impact County departments.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this agreement is not approved, this critical work will have to be deferred until DoIT is able to recruit and train sufficient staff to perform this work and could potentially leave the County vulnerable to cyber-attacks.