Introduced by the Administrative Services/Personnel and Finance Committees of the:

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

WHEREAS, Ingham County established a Wide Area Network for use with the County= s PCs six year= s ago; and

WHEREAS, the Ingham County Wide Area Network utilized almost from the beginning the Citrix Winframe System, which enables outside users, be it County employee= s, vendors, etc., to dial into the system to retrieve GroupWise e-mails, the law library, or various other connections; and

WHEREAS, the current system is no longer functioning at the capacity it should nor is it compatible with the Novell Network the County is upgrading; and

WHEREAS, the project is a logical extension of the Novell 4.11 to 5.11 version upgrade that is being done by Integration Projects, Inc., the current vendor selected under the competitive proposal guidelines; and

WHEREAS, the MIS Director has reviewed this proposal and believes it is in the best interest of Ingham County.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners approve the issuance of a contract addendum with Integration Projects, Inc. for an amount not to exceed $37,000.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the funds for this project are contained in the MIS Department budget under network maintenance.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairperson of the Board of Commissioners is authorized to sign any documents associated with this document after review by the County Attorney.

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES/PERSONNEL: Yeas: McDonald, Lynch, Pratt, Severino Nays: None

Absent: Minter Approved 8/15/00

FINANCE: Yeas: Bernero, Grebner, Czarnecki, McDonald, Schafer, Juall

Nays: None Absent: Minter Approved 8/16/00