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Joint resolution for the purchase of a two-year Service Level Agreement (SLA) with renewal options for three (3) additional years with URL Integration, Colorado Springs, Colorado to provide maintenance and support of the Lake County Justice Network (LCJN) including Civil E-Filing.
Staff Summary
• The Circuit Court Clerk has a bid-exempt requirement for a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the Lake County Justice Network (LCJN).
• The SLA will provide support for multiple Lake County Justice systems, plus local agencies, such as area police departments that communicate critical information.
• The support includes maintenance of URL Integration developed schemas, criminal and civil applications, databases as well as integration software such as the Oracle Service Bus (OSB) that are required to support the Lake County Justice Network (LCJN) and Civil e-filing on a 24 hour/day, 7 day/week basis.
• The framework of the LCJN utilizes Justice Reference Architecture (JRA) to accomplish communication between systems or software products that operate in different computer languages.
• The Purchasing Agent convened an ad hoc review group that approved bid exemption on the basis of Sole source.
• This contract will cost the County an amount not to exceed $250,000 charged to the Document Storage Fund account # 258-3110010-71220-000-000-000-00000.
Body
WHEREAS, the Circuit Court Clerk has a bid-exempt requirement for a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the Lake County Justice Network (LCJN) including Civil E-Filing; and
WHEREAS, the SLA will provide integration support for multiple Lake County Justice systems, plus local agencies, such as area police departments that communicate mission critical information; and
WHEREAS, the support includes the maintenance of URL Integration developed schemas, criminal and civil applications, databases as well as integration software that are required to support the Lake County Justice Network (LCJN) and Civil E-Filing on a 24 hour/day, 7 day/week basis; and
WHEREAS, the framework of the LCJN utilizes Justice Reference Architecture (JRA) to accomplish communication between systems and applications that was developed by URL Integration over the last four years; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Article 6, Section 102 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, the Purchasing Agent convened an ad hoc review group that approved bid exemption on the basis of Sole Source; and
WHEREAS, this project will be funded from Document Storage Fund.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Purchasing Agent is hereby authorized to enter into a two-year Service Level Agreement with renewal options for 3 (three) additional years with URL Integration, Colorado Springs, CO to provide support for the Lake County Justice Network in the amount of $100,000 per year, and provide support for the Electronic Civil Filing (e-filing) Application upon implementation in the amount of $150,000 per year charged to 258-3110010-71220-000-000-000-00000.
DATED at Waukegan, Lake County Illinois, on this 8 day of June, A.D., 2010.