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Council committee reviews emergency server purchase; staff urges prompt award to secure pricing
Summary
Finance committee reviewed a resolution authorizing the city administrator to enter an emergency agreement with ETC Technologies to purchase and install two servers and related services; staff said aging hardware and short-lived vendor quotes make timely award important, but no formal award vote was recorded in the transcript.
The New Franklin Finance Committee reviewed a resolution authorizing the city administrator (Frank Lloyd) to enter into an emergency agreement with ETC Technologies to purchase and install two servers and related licensing and support across several departments.
City staff said existing servers date from as early as 2011 and 2014 and that the police department server in particular was exhibiting hardware failures. The procurement package described two new servers, licensing, seven years of support, UPS battery…
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