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Approval of a Three-Year Contract with SHI International Corp. in the amount of $836,419.44 for Licenses, Services and the Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft for the Durham County Sheriff's Office
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Date of BOCC Meeting: March 10, 2025
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The Board is requested to approve and authorize the County Manager to execute year-one of a three-year contract with SHI International Corp. in the amount of $278,806.48 for licenses, services, and the enterprise agreement with Microsoft for the Durham County Sheriff's Office. The Board is also requested to authorize the County Manager/Sheriff to execute all subsequent renewals, not to exceed the total contract amount of $836,419.44. Funding for year-one exists within the Sheriff's Office Operating Budget.
Volume licenses for email and services will be purchased through SHI for the Sheriff's Office, per the State Convenience Contract 208C. The Microsoft Enterprise Agreement supports DCSO's users across the suite of the Microsoft Applications and includes several cybersecurity capabilities to help protect the DCSO from Malware attacks, including failover capabilities as of result of it being Cloud-based. Software assurance is included in the Enterprise Agreement and provides a comprehensive range of benefits to help the DCSO plan, deploy, and use the latest Microsoft technologies and services. The Microsoft Enterprise Agreement keeps the DCSO in line with the shift to cloud services and best practices across private and government sectors including the City of Durham, Mecklenburg County, Wake County, Guilford County, and many other counties and municipalities throughout North Carolina.
Funding for this contract was budgeted in the FY24-25 budget process. Year-two and three will be budgeted during the budget process. G.S. 143-129(e) (7) allows local governments to be exempted from the competitive bidding requirements and purchase furnishings/equipment through contracts...
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