REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
November 14, 2019
FROM: BRYON HORN, CIO
Information Services Department
BY: FRANK D. VAWTER, Information Services Manager
Information Services Department
SUBJECT
Title
Approve the award of a three-year purchase contract to Robert Burgess, dba Burgess Innovation Management for the purchase of Adobe Enterprise Licenses in the amount of $187,904 (Bid File No. 9523)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends Council approve the award of a three-year purchase contract to Robert Burgess, dba Burgess Innovation Management (Burgess) for the purchase of Adobe Enterprise Licenses in the amount of $187,904.00. In accordance with Administrative Order 3-1, the agreement is being purchased as the result of a formal bid process, in which Burgess Innovation Management provided the lowest cost for the needed software licenses.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Information Services Department (ISD) has maintained an Enterprise Agreement to cover the support and licensing of Adobe software products. Adobe licenses its enterprise agreements in multi-year terms and does not sell directly to customers, but require purchase through an authorized distribution channel. Burgess is an authorized reseller for Adobe licenses and services.
The agreement with Adobe has allowed ISD to deploy a standardized and supported version of Adobe Acrobat citywide and achieve lower software costs on all Adobe products. Approval will assure that the City has continued use of the Adobe products, software support and discounts on additional product quantities for the next three-year Enterprise License Agreement term.
BACKGROUND
Similar to the management of the Oracle and Microsoft agreements, ISD manages the Adobe Enterprise Licensing Agreement (ELA). ISD and Adobe entered into the ELA in 2016 as a way to assure the deployment of supported, standardized software and make Adobe Acrobat available citywide as part of the standard software load. The site license included i...
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