City Council

4. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR UPGRADING THE 25-528 CITY’S PHONE SYSTEM RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends the City Council: 1. Authorize the use of OMNIA Partners, Public Sector National Cooperative Agreement No. 01-125 with Merrill & Associates for the City’s analog phone system upgrade. 2. Approve and authorize the Statement of Work (Attachment 1) to Merrill & Associates, an Avaya value-added reseller (VAR) (Attachment 4), for the upgrade of the City’s analog phone system from v6.0.1 to v10.2 for an amount not to exceed (NTE) $275,754. 3. Approve and authorize a ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $27,575 for unforeseen costs related to the project. 4. Approve and authorize an annual subscription and support services in an amount of $70,069 for a term of one year (Attachment 2). Subscription services will begin after the completion of installation and will be subject to price increase based on an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all Urban Consumers for the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim area, which would be determined using the November index for the current year and the November index for the preceding year.