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Officials push to centralize IT purchases to reduce scattered departmental fees
Summary
County leaders discussed consolidating data-processing hardware, software and subscriptions under IT to reduce duplicate spending, improve procurement leverage and avoid piecemeal purchases by individual departments.
Elkhart County officials spent a sizable portion of their budget work session discussing a move to centralize data-processing hardware, software and recurring subscriptions under the county's IT budget, a change administrators said would improve purchasing power and reduce repair and support issues.
County Administrator Jeff Taylor said he had increased the IT capital budget to relieve pressure on the general fund and to aggregate roughly 200 separate platforms and subscriptions countywide. "We rolled up a bunch of costs this year and got some good prices on subscriptions by…
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