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The Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve a purchase order in the amount not to exceed $750,000.00 to Oracle Corporation for Annual Software Maintenance for WAM and Advanced Security Services, 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 February 21, 2018
Item No. 18-0022
Amount: $750,000.00
TO: The Honorable
Board of Water Commissioners
City of Detroit, Michigan
FROM: Gary Brown, Director
Water and Sewerage Department
RE: Annual Software Maintenance for WAM and Advanced Security Services ($750,000.00)
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 a purchase order in the amount not to exceed $750,000.00 to Oracle Corporation for Annual Software Maintenance for WAM and Advanced Security Services and also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
JUSTIFICATION
DWSD has utilized Oracle products for many core business applications functions since 2003. DWSD installed Oracle WAM under CS-1476 and went live in July 2014. Enhancements that permitted DWSD and The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) to maintain their own assets within the same system were then implement in June 2016. Today WAM serves as the core operations software package for both DWSD and the GLWA, where it is used to manage and record work orders and service requests, perform asset management functions, control inventory and manage procurement. Without this critical system, both the DWSD and GLWA would have material difficulty running day to day operations.
In the spring of 2016 DWSD changed its primary billing method to "by person" from "by street address" and began keeping track of specific custo...
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