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The Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to enter into contract No. 6001790 for an amount not to exceed $505,470.00 with CDW-Government (CDW-G) for Microsoft Office Cloud Software, 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 December 19, 2018
Item No. 18-0273
Contract No. 6001790
Term of Contract: 24 Months
Amount: $505,470.00
TO: The Honorable
Board of Water Commissioners
City of Detroit, Michigan
FROM: Gary Brown, Director
Water and Sewerage Department
RE: Contract #6007190 not to exceed $505,470.00 to CDW-Government (CDW-G) for Microsoft Office Cloud Software ($505,470.00)
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 enter into contract No. 6001790 for an amount not to exceed $505,470.00 with CDW-Government (CDW-G) for Microsoft Office Cloud Software and authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
JUSTIFICATION
One aspect of productivity in the workplace today is the availability and use of an office productivity suite. For many years now, DWSD has standardized on Microsoft's Office Suite, which includes Microsoft's Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and One Note. The one exception to this is email, where DWSD uses the City's Groupwise Email platform. DWSD intends to continue to standardize on the Microsoft Productivity Suite, including Microsoft's Outlook and Cloud Email Service.
DWSD's Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, which provided upgrades and support for the Office Productivity Suite, and various Windows desktop services, including shared file access, systems updates and scheduled upgrades has expired. Access to a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement allows DWSD, in ...
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