Primary Department: Purchasing
Primary Department Head/Elected Official: Paige McInnis
Secondary Department: Toll Road Authority
Secondary Department Head/Elected Official: Roberto Trevino
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Contract - Amendment
Project ID (if applicable): N/A
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): Amazon Web Services, Inc.
MWBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): 0%
MWBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWBE Participation Goal: 0% - Non-Divisible
Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable):
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Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request that the County Judge execute an amendment to a State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) Cooperative Contract agreement and a renewal option with Amazon Web Services, Inc. in the additional amount of $186,213 for additional cloud services for the Toll Road Authority for the period of November 9, 2024 - November 8, 2025, Justification for 0% MWBE Participation Goal: 0% - Non-Divisible.
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Background and Discussion:
This project will focus on design, develop, migrate, deploy, and manage the mission critical applications in a Cloud Infrastructure, along with the different services that is needed to run County IT operations seamlessly. The project will cover top tier HC applications and planning to avoid IT disruption.
AWS Service for HC IT Disaster Recovery. This amendment is to help support the project for Mission Critical Systems to be replicated in the IT DR Cloud environment. This is a continuation of HCUS’s effort to shore up system redundancy and will help restore mission critical systems and data, minimizing downtime and potential data loss and to continue operations of IT infrastructure in case of a major incident, cyber-attack, natural or human-made disaster.
Expected Impact:
Improves HCUS’s ability to support Harris County Mission critical services to restored, minimizing downtime and potential data loss and to continue operations of IT infrastructure in case of a major incident, cyber-attack, natural or human-made disaster.
Alternative Options:
As these are proprietary systems, the alternate solution will be an expensive self-managed environment which still leave the risk with HC.
County Strategic Plan Goal: 1. Make Harris County safer and more just.
County Strategic Plan Objective: E: Increase efficiency across the legal system.
Justice/Safety Initiative (Goal 1): E1: Modernize data and technology architecture across the legal system.
Infrastructure Initiative (Goal 2): F2: Improve data collection, utilization, and availability to drive better transportation safety decision-making.
Economy Initiative (Goal 3): M1: Develop a County economic development strategy that advances effective and equitable economic growth.
Health Initiative (Goal 4): N/A
Climate/Resilience Initiative (Goal 5): R3: Strengthen the County’s emergency response function.
Housing Initiative (Goal 6): N/A
Additional notes related to the Strategic Plan:
Prior Court Action (if any):
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10/08/2024 |
290 |
Renewal Option 3of 4 Approved |
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09/19/2023 |
306 |
Renewal 2 of 4 Approved |
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04/04/2023 |
265 |
Renewal to Original Agreement |
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11/09/2021 |
201 |
Award of Agreement |
Location: N/A
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Anticipated Court Date: 6/26/2025
Anticipated Implementation Date (if different from Court date): Click or tap to enter a date.
Emergency/Disaster Recovery Note: Not an emergency, disaster, or COVID-19 related item
Contact(s) name, title, department:
Girish Ramachandran, Chief Technology Officer, Harris County Universal Services.
Michael Yant, Senior Contract Manager, Purchasing
Attachments (if applicable): Letter