Committee reviews five-year PowerSchool contract worth $1.7 million total for SIS, cloud and subscriptions
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Summary
The committee reviewed a five-year contract with PowerSchool (Severn Intermediate Holdings/PowerSchool) for the student information system, cloud hosting, maintenance and subscriptions; total five-year cost was listed as $1.7 million with an estimated $200,000 savings for the multi-year procurement and potential additional subscription reductions
The committee considered a five-year contract with Severn Intermediate Holdings/PowerSchool for the districts student information system (SIS), cloud hosting and a bundle of subscriptions that include evaluation, enrollment and document-delivery services.
"This is a 5 year contract for... Perform, which is the teacher evaluation, the enrollment registration part, the ecollect, and then the technical part is the cloud hosting and the maintenance and support," said John (last name not specified in transcript) when the vendor item was presented.
Committee members asked for clearer year-one and annual cost breakdowns so the public record would not be interpreted as a $1.7 million per-year figure. Staff confirmed the $1.7 million figure stated in the item is the total for five years; the procurement team said the multi-year arrangement produced roughly $200,000 in savings and that removing or shortening some subscriptions (PowerPack, Naviance) could yield additional savings of about $220,000 in later years.
Discussion only: staff to provide a memo that lists year-one costs and the multi-year savings and to identify subscriptions planned for removal or shortened terms. The committee recommended forwarding the contract to the full board as part of the meeting package.
