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The Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve DWSD Contract 6007899 with Box Inc. for licensing, support, configuration and upgrades for DWSD's enterprise content management platform, for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $2,240,000.00 and a term of 5 years. This also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
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Agenda of June 17, 2026
Item No. 2026-129
Contract No.: 6007899
Contractor: Box, Inc.
Address: 900 Jefferson Ave., Redwood, CA 94063
Contract Amount: $2,240,000.00
Contract Term: 7/1/26 - 6/30/31
TO: The Honorable
Board of Water Commissioners
City of Detroit, Michigan
FROM: Gary Brown, Director
Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
RE: Proposed DWSD Contract No. 6007899
Licensing, support, configuration and upgrade for DWSD's enterprise content management platform, BOX
Box, Inc.
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Marqaicha Welch, Procurement Manager, the Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department, authorizes the Director to approve DWSD Contract 6007899 with Box Inc. for licensing, support, configuration and upgrades for DWSD's enterprise content management platform, for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $2,240,000.00 and a term of 5 years. This also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND & JUSTIFICATION
This request is to approve a new sole source contract for the continued licensing, configuration, support, and future upgrades of Box, Inc. over a five-year period, from July 2026 through June 2-31, with a total value of $2,240,000.00. This is a sole source procurement, as Box, Inc. is the proprietary provider of the enterprise cloud content management platform currently utilized by DWSD for secure cloud storage, file sharing, synchronizatio...
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