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Operations committee approves series of routine contract renewals, extensions and calendar changes; several items deferred for further review
Summary
The DeKalb County Operations Committee approved multiple contract renewals and change orders ranging from IT maintenance to facilities services, ratified several extensions and approved calendar and meeting-time changes. A small number of items were deferred for audit review or additional information.
The DeKalb County Operations Committee on Tuesday approved multiple routine contracts, renewals and calendar adjustments and deferred a small number of items for further review.
Approved items included annual support and maintenance renewals and contract extensions for the county’s IT and facilities needs. Committee members approved: an annual maintenance and support renewal for the county’s Aruba enterprise wireless network equipment (awarded to Hewlett Packard Enterprise and partners) with a not-to-exceed amount of $115,149.57; a Palo Alto cloud security firewall maintenance renewal (not-to-exceed $105,969.19); and routine facilities contracts such as HVAC chemical-treatment services (Premier Water and Energy Technology Inc., not-to-exceed $155,845.87), pest control (Powerhouse Termite and Pest Control, not-to-exceed $150,000), a fire-alarm services extension (All Star Fire Repair Service, not-to-exceed $582,000) and on-call electrical services renewals (GC and E Systems Group LLC and Electrical Contractors Inc., not-to-exceed $730,000).
Other approvals included a voter registration mail equipment maintenance increase and extension (Quadient/Quanton, Inc., not-to-exceed $30,000) and a purchase of heavy equipment for sanitation (a motor grader, not-to-exceed $209,478.85). Facilities also received ratification to continue a previously authorized emergency purchase for prefabricated animal kennels for the Elmhurst shelter (Horizon Structures LLC) and several contract term extensions related to maintenance and repair.
Deferred or referred items included: an Oracle Cloud services change order that the committee requested be reviewed by audit before returning and an East Side Peachtree Airport hangar/aviation development RFP item that a presenter asked to defer 60 days pending additional environmental information.
Votes were taken by voice for the routine approvals and recorded as approved in committee. Staff will return to the committee on deferred items after audit reviews or additional information is provided.
