TAMRMS#: B06
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ESRI Enterprise Agreement
Presented by: Gordon Coulman, Director of Innovation and Technology Services
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RECOMMENDATION(S)
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That the contract for the provision of GIS software enterprise software licensing and support be awarded to Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Canada in the amount of $189,000 ($63,000 per year for three years).
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PURPOSE OF REPORT
Administration requires Council approval to renew the ESRI enterprise agreement for licensing and support of Geographical Information System software as the cost exceeds the City Manager’s sole source approval limit of $100,000. Changing GIS software systems is neither desirable nor practical and the standardized ESRI small government agreement represents very good value.
COUNCIL DIRECTION
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BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
The City uses the ESRI geographical information system (GIS) software suite for creation and maintenance of all geographic information, including parcel and street maps, buried utilities, asset management, online map services, mobile applications, emergency services, Transit, and maps embedded within other corporate and resident-facing software applications.
ESRI is the world’s largest producer of GIS software and is widely used by municipalities throughout Canada via their small government enterprise agreement (EA). The ESRI EA is a three-year agreement that grants access to a specified suite of ESRI software on an unlimited basis including maintenance and unlimited technical support provided by ESRI Canada. The ESRI EA simplifies license management and provides a fixed, known cost over the long term with no additional costs for the specified software.
Further to City Manager Directive A-PUR-01, a sole-source procurement is justifiable where there is a proprietary compatibility between goods or services and existing equipment, systems or services.
Changing to a different GIS system would be neither desirable nor practical and ...
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