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C.100

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	June 11, 2019

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Costa

County

Subject:

Purchase Order for Groupware Technology, Inc. for Cisco UCS Blades and Support

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 06/11/2019

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
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:	Patrick Wilson, 925-335-8700
cc:	Marcy Wilhelm Renee Nunez

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: June 11, 2019
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent to execute, on behalf of the Health Services Director, a Purchase Order with Groupware Technology, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $424,231 for the purchase of Cisco UCS Blades and Smartnet Support Services for the period May 27, 2019 through May 26, 2022.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Funded 100% by the Hospital Enterprise Fund I budget.

BACKGROUND:

The Health Services Department (HSD) Information Technology currently owns Cisco UCS Blades at the Martinez and Pittsburg Data Centers and utilizes Smartnet Support Services. The new hardware is replacing End-of-Life (EOL) Cisco UCS Blades for the Data Centers. The new equipment suite will provide high-performance security for encrypted traffic, robust traffic inspection at high outputs, capabilities to support faster connection speeds, and upgrade capabilities for additional expansion capacity to support expected future growth in storage requirements for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Quality of patient care could be negatively impacted without the purchase of this product suite. If the EOL equipment is not replaced, HSD will be unable to accommodate secured faster data link connectivity or provide future expansion capacity for infrastructure supporting the Epic Upgrade taking place in October 2019.