THE FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT/PURCHASING DIVISION RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE ABOVE MOTION.
This item supports the Board's Value of "Consistently delivering responsive, efficient, quality services to the public and internal customers"; and its Goal to "Build into every process and service effective checks and balances that do not cause inefficiency, but rather ensure consistency, continuity, and quality".
On August 20, 2002 (Item No. 9), the Board approved the sole brand, sole source standardization of Oracle named software user licenses and processors licenses (standardization). On September 28, 2004 (Item No. 4), the Board approved the modification to the standardization to allow the County to purchase from any of the partners designated by Oracle for named software user licenses and processor licenses. The standardization was reaffirmed by the Board again on June 26, 2012 (Item No. 99), on November 7, 2017 (Item No. 30) and on April 9, 2019 (Item No. 21).
The purpose of this modification is to maintain the County’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system and respective modules (Exhibit 1) and provide the ability to purchase Oracle equipment, servers, peripheral products and hardware maintenance (Exhibit 2). More specifically, the modification to the sole brand, sole source standardization will allow the County to continue to purchase Oracle mid-range servers and software for enterprise applications such as Oracle database systems, ERP, Posse, Performance Budget and cloud applications. Oracle servers are specifically engineered to execute Oracle Solaris operating systems and integrates Oracle database binary code within the base operating systems. Oracle's authorized support and maintenance permits the County to remain in compliance with Oracle hardware warranty and licensing policies.
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