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Approval of a resolution authorizing the President & CEO, or his designee, to modify contract #200164 with Verizon for an additional $500,000 to address expanded needs for a total new contract amount not to exceed $3,350,878.
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FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding for this action is available in the FY2022 Operating Budget
STRATEGIC PLAN:
Strategic Goal Alignment:
☒ 1. Internal/External Customer Service Excellence ☐ 2. Stakeholder Engagement
☐ 3. Financial and Environmental Sustainability ☐ 4. Staff Development ☒ 5. Agency Growth Management
Strategic Objectives:
☐ 1.1 Safety & Risk ☒1.2 Continuous improvement ☐ 1.3 Dynamic Change
☐1.4 Culture of Innovation ☐2.1 Be an Employer of Choice ☐2.2 Organization Development
☐2.3 Organization Culture ☐3.1 Resource optimization ☐3.2 Safety Culture
☐3.3 Environmental Leadership ☐4.1 Educate & Call to Action ☐4.2 Build Partnerships
☐4.3 Value of Transit ☐4.4 Project Connect
EXPLANATION OF STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT: Maintaining and acquiring telecommunication services, to include circuits, private cellular network, cell phones, tablets, wifi hot spots, and business related adjunct telecommunications equipment and software will ensure stable and reliable systems as well as provide for the productivity and growth of employees, facilities and infrastructure.
BUSINESS CASE: An increase to an existing contract is required to address unprecedented growth in infrastructure, facilities and staff not foreseen in the initial contract award. This request is to provide funding for the remaining contract term through March 2022 in order to continue telecommunication services.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION: This item will be presented to the full board on December 17, 2021.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This request for additional contract funds will provide for the continuation of telecommunication services for the remainder of the existing Verizon contract through March 2022.
DBE/SBE PARTICIPATION: No SBE goal is assigned to this procurement because there is no scope of subcontracting opportunity.
PROCUREMENT: On April 1, 2017, Capital Metro awarded contract #200164 to Verizon Wireless for Wireless Cellular Services in an amount not to exceed $1,867,800 for one (1) base year and four (4) option years. The Capital Metro Board of Directors authorized award via Resolution #CMTA-2016-322.
Capital Metro modified contract #200164 with Verizon Wireless on August 28, 2017, to accommodate additional wireless services required for an ITS related project labelled Cellular Data Vehicle Routers, in an amount not to exceed $2,708,146 for the remaining base year and four (4) option years. The Capital Metro Board of Directors authorized award via Resolution #CMTA-2017-459.
In order to accommodate additional wireless services due to growth in our organization, contract #200164 needs to be modified to add $500,000 for the remaining months of the contract term which ends March 31, 2022. The total not to exceed amount with this modification is $3,350,878.
RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT: Information Technology
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RESOLUTION
OF THE
CAPITAL METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF TRAVIS
AI-2021-144
WHEREAS, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors and Capital Metro management endeavor to provide reliable and secure telecommunications solutions; and
WHEREAS, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors and Capital Metro management recognize the need to provide highly available systems for internal and external customers.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors that the President & CEO, or his designee, is authorized to modify contract #200164 with Verizon for an additional $500,000 to address expanded needs for a total new contract amount not to exceed $3,350,878.
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Secretary of the Board
Eric Stratton