Owasso council authorizes software renewals and NetApp storage purchase totaling roughly $209,500

The Owasso City Council approved three procurement items for information technology and software support: a $59,100 payment for continued use of the Central Square Technologies community development software module, renewal of the Central Square finance/ERP module (second year of a five-year contract), and the purchase of two NetApp storage area network (SAN) systems to replace aging appliances.

Steve Tibbetts, presenting the items, said the community development module is the smallest of three modules purchased last year and that the project’s community development piece was tentatively scheduled to go live in mid-January if testing and configuration are complete. "They are tentatively scheduled to go live mid January based upon community development's determination whether it is ready to go live or not," Tibbetts said. Staff said the current software will remain available until the new system is confirmed ready.

For the SAN purchase staff reported that two NetApp systems were quoted at $75,198.20 each including a three-year manufacturer service agreement for a total of $150,396.40; funding is included in the adopted FY25–26 budget. Staff recommended purchase from Peak Up Time (Tulsa) and authorization to execute the necessary documents. Council discussed vendor pricing, enterprise-class reliability and the value of maintaining redundancy for mission-critical workloads such as police evidence storage and public works design files.

Councilors moved and approved the payments and purchase by recorded vote.