1998-12-28 Regular Meeting of City Council

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e e Memo MIS Division To: Louis Rigby, Director of Administrative Services From: Lany Mabe, MIS Manager ~ Date: November 24,1998 ( Ref: PC Parts Proposals I have reviewed the five proposals submitted on November 16, 1998 in response to the Request for Proposal number seventy-four. The following comments are the basis for my recommendation to renew our contract with Komputer + Peripherals. HCI Computers Inc. Unadjusted proposed cost: $18,329 Adjustment Not Attempted . Vendor did not offer a proposed cost on ten (10) needed items in the proposal . PC cases offered are listed as "Generic" this gives MIS no indication as to the quality of the product offered. . Key Plus keyboards are not of the quality and reliability offered by Keytronics or other major keyboard manufacturers. The keyboard offered is of a lower quality than the keyboards offered by the other vendors.. I MIS has made an attempt to standardize motherboards to some degree. Remaining with Intel boards or at least Intel chip sets, allows MIS to eliminate incompatibility due to none Windows NT compliant chip sets. The motherboard offered does not meet our standard. The other vendors offered boards meeting our standard.. . The Relisys monitor is not the quality of the specified monitor. It does not have the same features that can be found on the ADI monitor which is offered by the other vendors. . Two applications require MIS to use a high quality modem like the Courier V. Everything. The other vendors quoted a price on this model. A "Generic" model gives no idea as to the quality or value on the modem offered. . The vendor substituted 3Com for Intel network adapters. MIS has standardized our adapters to the one brand to insure compatibility and reduce troubleshooting and diagnostic time on network problems. The other vendors responded with offers on the Intel Prof I 00. . Vendor has been in business for only two years. This vendor is not acceptable.