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Committee approves series of IT, security and equipment-service contracts including Huntress and Ooma
Summary
Homewood City committees approved multiple IT-related contracts: elevator emergency-call restoration with Ooma, a renewal of endpoint security monitoring (Huntress), mobile-device and managed-mobility services (Dataprise/Dataprize), Eaton battery-backup maintenance, and a copier-lease renewal with Dex Imaging.
Committee members approved a package of technology and equipment-service agreements June 30 aimed at restoring emergency communications and strengthening cyber and device management.
Mister Sims, the city's IT director, presented multiple items sequentially. He described a one-year contract with Ooma to restore emergency call service in elevators across the city, including the rec center, police and traffic locations, at a contract amount he stated as $6,410.60. “It offers a multi carrier signal so that just in case you don't have good AT and T, it can get out on Verizon,” Sims said, and noted notification capabilities if someone pushes an elevator emergency button.
The committee also authorized…
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