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Caddo Parish board reviews E-rate pilot to buy endpoint detection; vendor recommended
Summary
At a special session the Caddo Parish School Board considered awarding RFP 03-26 for endpoint detection and response to Presidio Network Solutions LLC, an E-rate pilot project the district’s IT director said could cut annual costs by about 76%; the transcript does not record a final vote tally.
The Caddo Parish School Board discussed awarding RFP 03-26 — an E-rate-funded endpoint detection and response system — to Presidio Network Solutions LLC and heard from the district’s new IT director about expected savings. The presentation framed the purchase as part of a federal E-rate pilot that selected Caddo Parish as a recipient from a roughly $200,000,000 funding pool.
Ricky Jones, introduced by board member Burton as the district’s new director of information technology, described the product as “just like your antivirus at the house” and said the software must be installed on every district device to protect against threats. Jones told the board the arrangement would “save us about, I wanna say, about 76% on what we pay on an annual basis.”
The motion on the agenda — recorded in the meeting as consideration to approve the proposal for RFP 03-26, endpoint detection and response, and naming Presidio Network Solutions LLC as the recommended proposer — was moved and seconded during the session. Board members asked for clarification about the technology and one member urged that “every department” be notified about the projected 76% savings. The transcript shows the chair called for a vote, but it does not include the tally or a formal recorded outcome for the RFP item.
Board members present included several who asked procedural or clarifying questions during the discussion; Miss Yates offered no comment, and one member, Mister Little, made a separate rhetorical suggestion about voluntarily reducing board salaries that did not affect the procurement discussion.
Next steps were not described on the record. The meeting transcript records the discussion and the vote call but does not include the board’s roll-call or yea/nay counts for the RFP item, nor does it show any implementation schedule or contract dates.
