Title
Contract No. 2203045
Microsoft Enterprise Licensing
Body
Agenda of: September 28, 2022
Item No.: 2022-388
Amount: $2,500,000.00
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Suzanne R. Coffey, P.E.
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: September 2, 2022
RE: Contract No. 2203045
Microsoft Enterprise License
Vendor: Dell Marketing LP
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Jeffrey E. Small, Chief Information Officer, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), authorizes the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to enter into Contract No. 2203045, "Microsoft Enterprise License" with Dell Marketing LP, at a cost not to exceed $2,500,000.00 for a duration of three (3) Years; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
GLWA uses Microsoft products, including Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive) as its main business productivity suite. Additional products in this agreement include Project, Visio, Power BI and Windows Server. As Microsoft sells only through third parties, GLWA is leveraging the State of Michigan negotiated MIDEAL cooperative agreement with Dell Computer Corporation to procure these products and leverage the state's volume discount pricing.
JUSTIFICATION
The use of Microsoft's productivity suite facilitates the organization's ability to interact through many different products. Some of these include Office 365, Teams (audio and video conferencing and collaboration), Word (word processing), Excel (spreadsheets), PowerPoint (presentation software), Visio (diagramming and vector graphics), SharePoint groups (collaboration and file sharing), Power BI (business reporting & analytics), and OneDrive (personal online file storage). All these products interact with each other and can be shared to allow multiple authorized team me...
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