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County approves $240,666 IT upgrade, taps contingency for $45,000 shortfall
Summary
Koochiching County approved a vendor quote of $240,666.43 to replace virtual-machine hosts and mass storage and authorized using $45,000 from contingency to cover the budget gap; staff said the hardware should last about seven years and they plan to migrate from VMware to Hyper-V to reduce license costs.
Koochiching County commissioners on April 28 authorized a $240,666.43 contract with BC3 to replace the county’s virtual-machine hosts and mass storage and agreed to use $45,000 from contingency to cover the difference between the vendor quote and the department’s allocated budget.
Justin, the county information-services presenter, told the board the county had budgeted roughly $195,000 for the project and that memory and hardware prices had risen substantially over the past year. “The quote from BC3 came back…
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