Award of Bid No. IFB-SV-25-132 – Computers at Work, Inc. dba vTECH io – As-Needed Computer, Hardware, and Maintenance Purchases – Multi-Year Award - $4,500,000.00

1:33:35Okay. Um C twenty

1:33:37three. Thank you, Chair. Yes, no. This pulled this item just to recognize Some of the technology improvements from the I from the IT folks and how this is going to save in the long run when we look at recurring spending and where we can save and cut from. And um so just wanted to highlight uh the the fiscal discipline that that this part of our team has and let the county administrator or whomever talk to it in a little greater detail. So good

1:34:01idea. Yeah, just real quick the um the idea here was Uh that to to implement a program that um you know our our IT team went and did some market analysis based on our our current spending habits, right? And and took a look at uh the current statewide government contract that were perfectly legal legally uh able to take advantage of through a procurement aspect, but decided that going on our own contract would actually save money. And so in fact by by not relying on that global contract, we're

1:34:31saving approximately $400 per year on I'm sorry, $400 per computer purchase. So with that, that's allowed us to save upwards over the last for this contract about two million dollars or half a million dollars a year which you know when we when we looked at the millage rate going going through to the budget hearing was was one of the reasons we were able to give that money back to the taxpayers uh because we didn't need it because we've we've done things to make our our IT department more efficient in terms of how we How we rely on our computers as

1:35:02well as how long we hold on to them. We we also made some changes in terms of our useful life. So rather than cycling computers out every three years, we would have decided to cycle them out every four years. And just those subtle efficiency changes made a huge impact and we were like I said, we were able to uh this board was able to I was able to make a Recommendation of the board to cut the millage in order to realize they're safe with faculty taxpayer. So we're very proud of the team of them doing that. And then on the side, it's just gravy, they they implemented a uh an employee buyback program uh for computers.

1:35:32Brilliant.

1:35:33Which which And where'd that idea

1:35:34come from?

1:35:35I think that came from someone in your office there. And allow Dolotowski. Allows our uh allows our employees to incentivizes them really to take care of their their equipment because guess what? They can buy it in the end and use it for personal use. And that'll probably add another fifty and sixty thousand back to the general fund as well. So very proud of R IT uh folks for taking uh efficiency to heart and uh doing good things for our taxpayers. Thank

1:35:58Mike with that

1:35:59move approval.

1:36:00Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. All right, C twenty twenty-eight.