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C.125

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	July 9, 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: 07/09/2019

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

ABSENT:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor

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

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: July 9, 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 $127,505 for the purchase of three (3) Cisco UCS Blades and Smartnet Support Services for the period from May 27, 2019 through May 26, 2024.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Funding required by this action is included in the Hospital Enterprise Fund I budget.

BACKGROUND:

The Health Services Information Technology Department currently owns Cisco UCS Blade Servers at the Martinez and Pittsburg Data Centers and utilizes Smartnet Support Services. The new hardware will be used specifically by the Epic Clarity Team. The hardware comes with 5-years of maintenance support. Cisco UCS Blade Servers are based on Intel® Xeon® processors. They work with virtualized and non-virtualized applications to increase performance, energy efficiency, flexibility, and administrator productivity. The enterprise-class Cisco UCS Blade Server delivers market-leading performance, versatility, and density without compromise for workloads ranging from web infrastructure to distributed databases. 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. Without it, the Epic Clarity Team 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.