Four key California tech cities are discussing contract opportunities for goods and services. Here are some highlights:
Sacramento: The city of Sacramento may renew its service agreements for IT, including a lease for city fiber. Some of the companies on the service agreement are Adlib Publishing Systems, Atlassian, EMC Corp. and enChoice-CYA Technologies. The agreement cannot exceed $3.95 million. The contract was discussed along with cooperative purchasing agreement options in the city’s June 27 city council meeting. The cooperative purchasing agreement was set at a limit of $13.46 million for companies such as Kronos, Lenovo, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and Palo Alto Technologies.
Los Angeles: The city of Los Angeles is replacing its payroll system. The previous system PaySR, had its maintenance contract extended by 18 months and the total expense increased by $875,000 at the June 30 meeting.
The city’s Technology Oversight Committee (ITOC) is responsible for selecting a vendor for the replacement system.
The city of Los Angeles is also considering a proposal for a Web Content Management System. If adopted, the City Manager would be allowed to enter a contract with Vision Technology Solutions that costs no more than $608,000 over five years. The contract will include Web design, implementation and training on the system.
San Francisco: On June 27, the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission was authorized to enter a communications site lease with American Towers for installation and maintenance of new microwave communications antennas, radio communications, and other general telecommunications facilities. The initial lease is for seven years with three additional renewal periods of five years.
San Jose: On June 13, San Jose’s City Council authorized the beginning of negotiations with anyCOMM/Siemens. If these negotiations are successful, San Jose will be replacing nearly 70,000 poles with modern lights, built-in sensors, IoT ports, and distributed networking supporting cellular and Wi-Fi. This project has potential to be a revenue stream for the city in the future. It would begin in August and would be the largest city/county IoT development in North America.
