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Trustees approve Dell, Cisco and Adobe purchases; board hears plan for multi-vendor printing contracts
Summary
Trustees endorsed multiple procurement requests including bulk device purchases from Dell, a five-year Cisco maintenance agreement, an Adobe license renewal and a multi-vendor RFP for printing and direct mail services; trustees raised questions about device disposal, prevailing wage and local vendor participation.
The Finance, Audit, Compliance, Facilities and Operations Committee approved a set of purchasing recommendations from university divisions that the administration said will yield cost savings and operational efficiencies. The nut: trustees endorsed bulk purchasing of Dell devices, a multi-year Cisco maintenance enterprise agreement, a renegotiated Adobe licensing contract, and authorization to pursue up to three vendors for a digital-storefront printing and direct-mail RFP. DoIT requested authority to spend up to $1,700,000 on device refresh purchases from Dell Technologies under a bulk-purchasing program that produced a per-device price reduction of more than 20% compared with individual unit pricing. The university reported…
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