County authorizes expedited procurement for urgent IT storage and server upgrades
Summary
Facing recent data loss and degraded services, the board authorized staff to expedite an RFP process for IT storage and related licenses up to a not-to-exceed planning amount of $250,000 and asked staff to return with vendor bids and implementation plans.
County IT staff reported recurring storage failures and the loss of critical service data that disrupted operations and forced rescheduled hearings. The board authorized staff to quickly solicit bids and return with specific proposals to address the county’s redundant storage and licensing needs.
Craig, an IT staff member, described the issue as a faulty storage-array design that risks broader outages: "we lost three days of productivity in our prosecutors and in our public defenders office," he said, explaining how a lack of redundancy had forced manual recovery and productivity losses. Commissioners pressed for a detailed list of proposed purchases, funding sources and a shortened RFP timetable; staff said they had rough pricing and would provide formal bids and a recommended provider to the board for ratification.
The board did not appropriate the full $250,000 at this meeting for a single vendor; instead commissioners authorized staff to accelerate an RFP and return with recommended providers and more detailed cost estimates because of the urgency of ongoing failures.
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