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Commission waives procurement; approves $130,653.69 purchase of HPE storage arrays
Summary
The commission waived formal procurement and authorized purchase of three HPE enterprise storage arrays for $130,653.69 to maintain compatibility with the city's virtualization strategy and avoid migration work.
The commission approved staff’s request to waive formal procurement and purchase three HPE enterprise storage arrays for $130,653.69.
IT staff told commissioners the city's current storage environment is built on HPE’s storage platform and that replacing the storage layer with a different manufacturer would require additional integration and migration work. Staff said approximately 15% of the city's resources are stored in the cloud and recommended a like-for-like replacement to support the city’s planned 2027 virtualization strategy.
After questions about cloud storage percentages, commissioners moved, seconded and approved the procurement waiver and purchase unanimously.
Why it matters: the purchase is intended to preserve compatibility and limit migration risk across the city's virtual-server environment; it represents a discrete IT capital expenditure that staff recommended be exempted from formal procurement because a like-for-like replacement limits integration work.
Next steps: staff will proceed with the purchase and integrate the new arrays into the city’s virtual infrastructure.
