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The Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve purchase orders in an amount not to exceed $5,174,200.00 for Contract Number CS-1843, Unlimited Oracle Database Software, One Year Oracle Cloud Computing License, and Three Years of Database Maintenance, and 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 Feb. 15, 2017
Item No. 17-0015
Contract No. CS-1843
Project Length: 1,095 days
Amount: $5,174,200.00
TO: The Honorable
Board of Water Commissioners
City of Detroit, Michigan
FROM: Gary Brown, Director
Water and Sewerage Department
RE: Contract Number CS-1843 Unlimited Oracle Database Software, One Year Oracle Cloud Computing License, and Three Years of Database Maintenance ($5,174,200.00)
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Daniel A. Rainey, Chief Information Officer, the Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve purchase orders in an amount not to exceed $5,174,200.00 for Contract Number CS-1843 Unlimited Oracle Database Software, One Year Oracle Cloud Computing License, and Three Years of Database Maintenance, and also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
JUSTIFICATION
Because DWSD is the owner of the Oracle technology and business relationship, utilizing DWSD as the purchaser of the Unlimited License Agreement makes the most sense. DWSD was able to leverage its business relationship with Oracle and negotiate terms that will consolidate DWSD's, the City of Detroit's, and the Great Lakes Water Authority's (GLWA) Oracle database, security, webserver and middleware licenses under one entity, DWSD, for the next three years. Taking this approach addresses several issues: 1) Oracle considers itself appropriately licensed for the three orga...
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