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Lake County, IL
File #: 25-1375    Version: 1 Name: Joint resolution approving a contract with Granicus, Denver, Colorado, in the amount of $71,531.85 for GovDelivery Experience Engagement Cloud Essentials.
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 10/3/2025 In control: Financial & Administrative Committee
On agenda: Final action: 11/18/2025
Title: Joint resolution approving a contract with Granicus, Denver, Colorado, in the amount of $71,531.85 for GovDelivery Experience Engagement Cloud Essentials.
Attachments: 1. Agreement, 2. Vendor Disclosure
Title
Joint resolution approving a contract with Granicus, Denver, Colorado, in the amount of $71,531.85 for GovDelivery Experience Engagement Cloud Essentials.

Staff Summary
* Lake County's multi-year agreement with Granicus to use GovDelivery to send mass distribution emails to the public, businesses, government agencies, and more, expires at the end of Fiscal Year 2025.
* Due to Granicus changing its subscription fees model, Lake County needs to migrate to the GovDelivery Government Experience Engagement Cloud Essentials platform, allowing up to 350,000 unique contacts.
* A cooperative purchasing contract with Granicus has been identified through OMINA Partners (NCPA 01-115) to procure needed goods, services, construction, or professional services that were competitively solicited and awarded.
* Omnia Partners competitively procured the services for Software and SaaS Solutions through a Request for Proposal (RFP) that allowed multiple awards to qualified vendors. Omnia Partners received 21 proposals and identified nine qualified vendors, of which Granicus was awarded a contract.

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RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, in 2014, several Lake County offices and departments began using GovDelivery; and

WHEREAS, Lake County utilizes GovDelivery to send news releases, media advisories, e-newsletters, bid notifications, and other mass distribution emails to the public, businesses, government agencies, and more; and

WHEREAS, Lake County's multi-year agreement with Granicus for the GovDelivery Communications Cloud expires at the end of Fiscal Year 2025; and

WHEREAS, Granicus has changed it subscription fees model to account for the number of unique contacts an organization has in GovDelivery; and

WHEREAS, due to Lake County having approximately 291,000 unique contacts in GovDelivery, this contract is for the GovDelivery Government Experience Engagement Cloud Essentials platform, allowing up to 350,000 unique contacts; and

WHEREAS, this contract adds Single Sign-On, an inte...

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