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Council votes to contract with Petrie Design after IT-services review
Summary
After reviewing three proposals and debating cybersecurity, redundancy and cost, the Belvidere City Council committee voted to contract with Petrie Design for IT services; the county and other vendors submitted competing bids.
The Belvidere City Council committee voted Dec. 22 to contract with Petrie Design for IT-services support after considering proposals from the county, Entrez Computer Solutions and Sundog.
City Attorney Mike Drella summarized the procurement history and vendor offers. He said the county had previously hosted the city's servers and helped after a ransomware attack, but that the county's price had risen to about $127,200 per year. Drella described the raffle of proposals: Entrez provided an hourly-based estimate with annual costs roughly $139,000–$172,000…
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