Christian County awards Huntress managed-services contract to local firm PC Solutions
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Summary
The Christian County Commission approved RFP RP2025-12 to hire a managed-services provider for the Huntress cybersecurity platform after staff said only one responsive bid was received. PC Solutions of Ozark was recommended by evaluators and the commission voted to award the contract.
The Christian County Commission voted Nov. 13 to award RFP RP2025-12 for a managed-services provider to run the Huntress cybersecurity platform and provide local response support.
Purchasing Manager Miss Kim told commissioners the county solicited more than 100 bidders but received a single responsive bid from PC Solutions of Ozark. "We sent out to over a 100 bidders. We only received 1 bid," Miss Kim said. Evaluators Rawlings and Beagle reviewed the proposal and recommended the county accept PC Solutions' bid.
Miss Kim said the awarded bidder will "provide the Huntress license for the county and will watch for any issues" and will contact the county IT department if problems arise. A county IT speaker described Huntress as an "offensive" detection layer layered over existing defenses such as Microsoft Defender, saying it looks for intrusions and anomalies the standard antivirus may not flag.
Commissioners discussed the importance of local "boots on the ground" support and the solicitation's 50-mile locality requirement so a vendor could physically respond when needed. "If this product finds something ... we need some on boots on ground support," a county IT representative said.
A motion to approve RP2025-12 was made and seconded; the commission recorded the ayes and approved the award to PC Solutions. No opposing votes were recorded.
The approval authorizes the county to purchase the Huntress license and secure managed monitoring and incident-response support from the recommended vendor. The commission did not provide contract dollar amounts in the meeting record.