Executive/Council Action Form (ECAF)
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Motion 23-299, approving and authorizing the execution of Amendment 11 to the Integrated Financial Management System Contract between Snohomish County and Cayenta Canada Corporation
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DEPARTMENT: Information Technology
ORIGINATOR: Dee White
EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDATION: Ken Klein 7/6/23
PURPOSE: The purpose of this ECAF is to obtain approval for Amendment 11 to the Cayenta Integrated Financial System Agreement with N. Harris Computer Corporation
BACKGROUND: In 1996 the County approved and executed a contract to acquire an Integrated Enterprise Financial System from Cayenta Inc., formerly SFG Technologies Inc., pursuant to RFP-1-95. The integrated financial system is the backbone that organizes, consolidates, and services the fiscal needs of Snohomish County across the enterprise. Since financial information contained in this system is critical to County operations, as well as ensuring fiscal responsibility and accountability, it is equally critical that this system be properly supported. The County is currently upgrading the hardware supporting the application that will reach end of life in October 2023, and the County is upgrading the database platform from Oracle to SQL and in order to do so, an upgrade from the current version 7.7 to 9.0 is required to facilitate the database transition. The platform includes additional licensing components and subscriptions for the upgraded software along with continued maintenance and support into the future. During implementation, the County determined that the Cayenta Payment Processing portion of the upgrade no longer needs to be implemented and licensed, which results in a license credit of $5,000. The license was paid in 2021, so our credit will be applied to FMS Classic Accounts & Receivables modernization work as a part of the implementation professional services contract and is memorialized in change order CO-004. This Amendment 11 memorializes th...
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