O2019-1001 ORDINANCE appropriating $1,951,000.00 from the Equipment Acquisition Consolidated Fund to purchase Various Types of Computer Equipment for the Houston Police Department

The Chief of Police for the Houston Police Department recommends that City Council approve an ordinance to appropriate $1,951,000 from the Equipment Acquisition Consolidated Fund (Fund 1800).   HPD will use the TX DIR contract for this purchase.

1.  IT Equipment                                       WBS X-100023                            $1,951,000

HPD’s desktops, laptops and various other computing equipment are exceeding five years of service and require refreshing. As equipment ages, processing capability no longer meet current software requirements, failure rates increase causing large amounts of downtime in productivity to classified and civilian workers, and the older equipment configuration will struggle to meet the Windows 10 needs which HPD must be on by the end of 2019 when Windows 7 becomes End of Life.

Fiscal Note

Funding for this item is included in the FY2020 Capital Improvement Plan budget. No significant Fiscal Operating impact is anticipated as a result of this project.

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Art Acevedo

Chief of Police

$1,951,000.00 

Equipment Acquisition Consolidated Fund

Fund 1800

Rhonda Smith, CFO and Deputy Director   (713) 308-1770

Sonja Odat, City Council Liaison (713) 308-1728