Sarasota County Schools
Agenda Item #9
Title
APPROVAL OF THE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SCHOOL BOARD OF SARASOTA COUNTY AND SARASOTA COUNTY FOR SHARING THE MANAGEMENT, OPERATING AND SUPPORT COSTS SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY WIDE FIBER OPTIC NETWORK SERVICING BOTH ORGANIZATIONS
Description
As a result of the ongoing collaboration between Sarasota County and the Sarasota County School Board, the community fiber optic network has been extended to provide connectivity to all public schools and critical School Board administrative facilities. The expanded community network provides significantly greater bandwidth and value per dollar that the leased network it replaced. This cooperative agreement provides the School Board up to 10,000 megabits of network capacity (10 gigabits) for $584,148.
An additional value validation reference point can be found in results of an RFP the School Board conducted for the creation and operation of a fiber network. The best available vendor proposal provided capacity of 10 megabits for an annual recurring fee in excess of $1,400.000.
Recommendation
That the cooperative agreement between Sarasota County and the School Board of Sarasota County for cost sharing of the technological support and infrastructure supporting the community fiber optic network in the amount of five hundred eighty four thousand one hundred forty-eight dollars ($584,148), be approved.
Contact
NORRIS & HANSON
Financial Impact
No additional funding is required for this agreement.
Attachment: Cost Sharing for Fiber.pdf
Attachment: Security Team SLA-Fiber.pdf
Attachment: Public Networks SLA-Fiber.pdf