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Supervisors press Department of Technology as COIT pushes citywide IT consolidation; Avaya contract continued
Summary
After months of COIT work to centralize IT purchasing and data centers, the committee considered an ordinance to create a chief information officer and strengthen citywide ICT planning. Heated questioning centered on an Avaya PBX amendment the department asked the committee to approve; supervisors continued the Avaya item to allow further review.
The Budget & Finance Committee took up a package of IT items that included a proposed ordinance to strengthen the Committee on Information Technology (COIT), create a formal chief information officer role, and require a five-year information-and-communications-technology (ICT) capital-and-operating plan. Committee members heard COIT and Department of Technology (DT) staff describe months of work toward consolidation of data centers, a shared email platform and vendor contract consolidation.
COIT director John Walton described a centers-of-excellence approach intended to move dozens of departmental…
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