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Spalding County selects Liberty for managed IT services; county cites lower cost and service-level guarantees
Summary
After an RFP, the county approved a contract with local firm Liberty for comprehensive managed IT services and a cloud migration, citing a substantially lower price than a competing Atlanta firm and the ability to codify response standards.
Spalding County commissioners approved a contract awarding managed IT services and a planned server migration to local firm Liberty after a formal RFP and interview process, county staff announced.
Mike Wyndham, who led the procurement review, told the board two firms responded to the RFP and staff found the proposals “very similar in their comparison” of services but “very far apart in their costs.” Wyndham said the difference in total project cost was roughly $3 million versus $1.6 million, and staff recommended the lower-priced Liberty proposal.
The contract will include migration of specified servers to the cloud and a managed-services agreement that sets response-time and service-level requirements. Wyndham said the RFP codified the level of service to be provided, which staff and the sheriff’s office had emphasized as critical because public-safety operations depend on reliable IT uptime.
The scope of the RFP did not include in-custody camera systems, which the sheriff’s office had procured separately; county staff said camera services are handled outside the RFP scope. Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the contract and praised staff for the competitive procurement.
Why it matters: The contract will replace an existing arrangement and aims to provide a single, county-wide managed services vendor and clear service-level expectations. County IT leaders said the consolidated contract and the cloud migration are intended to improve transparency, reliability and the county’s ability to respond to critical outages.
Wyndham and other staff thanked the sheriff’s office for participating in vendor interviews to help define operational priorities. County staff also noted the ongoing finance-system migration to Tyler Technologies scheduled to go live July 1 as part of the county’s broader IT and financial modernization.
The contract award is effective following standard execution and will be implemented under the county’s procurement and IT oversight processes.
