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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Permits, Licenses, and Inspections to enter into an agreement or agreements or amendments to existing agreements to purchase Accela Civic Platform and Accela Citizen Access subscription and cloud hosting services and further authorizing a professional services Agreement with Accela to migrate from self-hosting to a cloud environment hosted by Accela.
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Whereas, the City originally entered into a Permits Plus Software License and Services Agreement (Controller #43322) (dated August 1, 2003), with Accela, Inc. to provide software and related professional information technology services; and
Whereas, the City subsequently executed a First Supplemental Permits Plus Software License and services Agreement (dated August 1, 2003) to add compensation for the purchase of additional features for a Department of Public Works asset management system; and
Whereas, the parties thereafter entered into a Second Supplemental Permits Plus Software License and Services Agreement (dated June 18, 2009) to upgrade its existing Permits Plus software to Accela Automation and its peripheral products and related services; and
Whereas, the parties then entered into a Third Supplemental Agreement to Permits Plus Software License and Services Agreement (dated August 31, 2011) to provide for ongoing maintenance of Acella Automation and its peripheral products and related services; and
Whereas, since 2012, the parties have been operating under a document entitled “Maintenance Agreement” (dated July 24, 2012), for up to five (5) additional years of maintenance services and support relating to the Accela Automation and its peripheral products; and
Whereas, although the City wishes to continue using specified Accela software for its business purposes, it is having numerous technical problems with self-hosting the database and internal servers; and
Whereas, moving to the cloud will improve th...
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