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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 32020 with Sprint Solutions, Inc. and Contract No. 33427 with Verizon Wireless, for providing cellular phone, Blackberry and data services, and to increase the annual aggregate amount by $150,000 for a revised annual aggregate amount not to exceed $775,000; and
Increase appropriations in the General Services Fund (IS 385) in the Technology and Innovation Department (TI) by $150,000. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The Technology and Innovation Department is responsible for administering cellular phone and data services for City departments. For many years, the City has used cellular devices as tools to enhance customer service and improve employee productivity and efficiency.
Currently, the City uses four vendors for cellular phone and data services: Verizon Wireless (Verizon), Sprint Solutions, lnc. (Sprint), T-Mobile USA, and AT&T Mobility (AT&T). All four providers meet our operational and customer service requirements.
Since 2006, the City has participated in a cooperative purchase agreement for cellular phone and data services under a Master Price Agreement with the State of California under the Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA). The state agreement offers lower rates based on aggregate volumes and sets price caps on services and equipment. At that time, the City Council authorized the City Manager to enter into agreements for wireless and data service totaling $625,000 in aggregate across the various vendors. Subsequent agreements have revised the contract authority for specific vendors while maintaining the annual aggregate total.
In 2010, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 10-0151 to participate in the WSCA Participating Addendum with Sprint Nextel, as they are extended or renewed, and, concurrently, authorized execution of a new agreement with Sprint Nextel, in an annual amount not to exceed $445,000, to provide cellular tel...
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