SPECIFIC EXPLANATION:
The Chief Information Officer recommends that City Council approve an amending ordinance authorizing a first amendment to the sole source contract between the City of Houston and Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) to increase the total number of Portal for ArcGIS subscriptions to seven for an enterprise agreement (ELA). There will be no cost adjustment to the annual payment. Additionally, the amendment will provide signature authority to the Chief Information Officer on future no-cost amendments.
ESRI GIS products are mapping and spatial analytics tools that allow city departments to overlay data onto maps of geographic areas. GIS is used to improve decision making, service delivery, and citizen engagement by applying and sharing location-based analysis of city services, transactions and processes.
This contract provides ongoing software version upgrades, security patches, technical support, technical and end user training, tools to facilitate integration with 3rd party products, and new GIS toolsets including, but not limited to Insights for ArcGIS, GeoAnalytics Server, and Navigator for ArcGIS which are complimentary inclusions to the GIS Enterprise License Agreement. the software includes on premise, cloud and mobile components.
BACKGROUND:
In April 2007, an executive order was signed authorizing the creation of a City of Houston enterprise Geographic Information Systems (EGIS) to be maintained by Houston Information Technology Services. The long-term goal was to create a regional Geographic Information System (GIS) environment that supports the sharing of data, GIS services and resources such as applications and programs among city departments, area governments, utilities and related agencies. Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) is the industry leader for GIS software and is the standard enterprise GIS product adopted by the City of Houston.
This contract was awarded on June 21, 2017 by Ordinance No. 2017-0452 for a three-year term, in the amount not to exceed $3,480,000.00. Expenditures as of November 9, 2018 totaled $1,998,000.00.
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Lisa Kent, Chief Information Officer