File #: 17938    Version: 0 Name: wide-area network services - SureWest of Lenexa, KS
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 6/25/2012 In control: Finance and Audit Committee
On agenda: 6/25/2012 Final action: 7/2/2012
Title: A RESOLUTION awarding a three-year contract for the furnishing of wide-area network services for use countywide to SureWest of Lenexa, Kansas, under the terms and conditions of Request for Proposals No. 53-12, at a cost to the County in 2012 not to exceed $161,280.00, and a total three-year cost not to exceed $483,840.00.
Sponsors: Scott Burnett
Indexes: NETWORK SERVICES, SUREWEST
Attachments: 1. 17938adopt.pdf, 2. 17938AGMT.pdf
Related files: 19027, 19165, 18673, 18696, 18938, 19096
      IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
 
 
Title
A RESOLUTION awarding a three-year contract for the furnishing of wide-area network services for use countywide to SureWest of Lenexa, Kansas, under the terms and conditions of Request for Proposals No. 53-12, at a cost to the County in 2012 not to exceed $161,280.00, and a total three-year cost not to exceed $483,840.00.
 
 
Intro
RESOLUTION #17938, June 25, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Scott Burnett, County Legislator
 
 
Body
WHEREAS, the County has a need for wide-area network services to support the data communications infrastructure for use by the County and the Circuit Court; and,
 
WHEREAS, the Director of Finance and Purchasing issued Request for Proposals No. 53-12 for these services; and,
 
WHEREAS, a total of thirty-three notifications were distributed and the four lowest responses were evaluated as follows:
                       
BIDDER                          TOTAL POINTS            ANNUAL AMOUNT
AT&T                              62.5                        $274,095.60
Kansas City (Jackson County), MO
 
SureWest                        87.5                        $161,280.00
Lenexa, KS
 
TW Telecom                        77.5                        $263,386.92
Littleton, CO
 
Windstream                        55                        $255,597.60
Lenexa, KS
and,
 
 
WHEREAS, an evaluation committee reviewed the proposals and evaluated each bidder on the basis of proposed method of performance, experience, qualifications, references, and pricing; and,
 
 
WHEREAS, the Director of the Finance and Purchasing recommends the award of a three-year contract for wide-area network services to SureWest of Lenexa, KS, under the terms and conditions of RFP No. 53-12, at a cost to the County for 2012 not to exceed $161,280.00, as the lowest and best proposal received; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that award be made as recommended by the Director of Finance and Purchasing, and that the Director be, and is hereby, authorized to execute for the County any documents necessary to the accomplishment of the award; and,
 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Finance and Purchasing is authorized to make all payments, including final payment on the contract, subject to annual appropriations.
 
Enacted and Approved
Effective Date:  This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.
 
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
 
 
______________________________            ________________________________
Chief Deputy County Counselor                  County Counselor
 
Certificate of Passage
 
I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution #17938 of June 25, 2012, was duly passed on July 2, 2012 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:
 
Yeas ________8______            Nays _______0________
 
Abstaining ____0______            Absent _______1_______
 
 
______________________                  ______________________________
Date                                          Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature
 
 
Fiscal Note
There is a balance otherwise unencumbered to the credit of the appropriation to which the expenditure is chargeable and there is a cash balance otherwise unencumbered in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made each sufficient to provide for the obligation herein authorized.  
 
 
ACCOUNT NUMBER:            001      5101      56430
ACCOUNT TITLE:                  General Fund
                              Non-Departmental
                              Telephone Utility
NOT TO EXCEED:                  $107,361.00
 
ACCOUNT NUMBER:            002      5102      56430
ACCOUNT TITLE:                  Health Fund
                              Non-Departmental
                              Telephone Utility
NOT TO EXCEED:                  $2,100.00
 
 
 
ACCOUNT NUMBER:            003      5103      56430
ACCOUNT TITLE:                  Park Fund
                              Non-Departmental
                              Telephone Utility
NOT TO EXCEED:                  $44,469.00
 
 
ACCOUNT NUMBER:            004      5104      56430
ACCOUNT TITLE:                  Special Road and Bridge Fund
                              Non-Departmental
                              Telephone Utility
NOT TO EXCEED:                  $7,350.00
 
 
Funds sufficient to meet this obligation in years subsequent to 2012 are subject to appropriation of the 2013 and future years= budgets.
 
 
 
 
________________________                  _______________________________
Date                                          Director of Finance and Purchasing