SUBSTITUTE ADOPTED - JUNE 8, 1999

Agenda Item No. 19

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



INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS



RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A PURCHASE AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE COREL CORPORATION SOFTWARE THROUGH A COREL UNIVERSAL LEASE AGREEMENT



RESOLUTION #99-132



WHEREAS, the Ingham County Board of Commissioners in 1994 approved the funding for a County Wide Area Network (WAN) and that network has been implemented based on the Novell Operating System and other vendor's software; and



WHEREAS, the County Wide Area Network is constantly being upgraded and additional software is being acquired, developed, or upgraded by the numerous vendors of the software in use; and



WHEREAS, Ingham County has a need to stay current on all of the software in use on the County's Network; and



WHEREAS, the Corel Corporation (word processing software) has developed a Universal License Agreement Program to provide an affordable means of acquiring the latest version of the software the County needs to utilize; and



WHEREAS, the Management Information Services Director has reviewed this proposal and believes this proposal to be in the best interest of the County.



THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners authorizes a two-year purchase agreement with Ideal Technology to acquire the Corel Universal License Agreement at a value of $55,200.00, for a two-year period that represents a 26% discount on the software and guarantees Ingham County upgrade protection during this period.



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the funding for this project is contained within the Management Information Services budget.



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this transaction will be based on an issuance of a County purchase order to Ideal Technology for the two-year period.



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board Chairperson and County Clerk are authorized to sign the agreement after review by the County Attorney.













ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES/PERSONNEL: Yeas: Czarnecki, McDonald, Lynch, Severino, Minter Nays: None Absent: None Approved 6/1/99



FINANCE: Yeas: McDonald, Bernero, Grebner, Lynch, Schafer, Juall, Minter

Nays: None Absent: None Approved 6/2/99