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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS <br />FORM 11: APPROVAL OF MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT <br />PAGE <br />BACKGROUND (Continued} <br />project) off of this contract and receive the same discounting offered for the core desktop <br />licensing for Riverside County, County Departments will have agreement options that best fit <br />their departmental needs including either a three or five year agreement. <br />PRICE REASONABLENESS <br />Information Technology and the Purchasing Department, working with Microsoft, determined <br />best pricing and developed a customized licensing program that works best for California <br />Government, The analysis shows that by participating in the Enterprise Agreement (EA), the <br />County can save as much as $907,686 annually off the retail price and $4,538,430 over the next <br />five (5) years. The requested) $6 million annual amount allows individual departments to <br />purchase their user or device license and various platform products and services that <br />departments purchase to meet their business needs. The $6 million is an estimated amount that <br />provides for the, purchasing authority off the Microsoft agreement in order to ensure county <br />departments receive all applicable discounts. As with any county purchase, all purchase orders <br />will be processed through County Purchasing for approval. <br />Because Microsoft .. only sells their products through resellers, Purchasing released a Request <br />for Quote PURAC -12001 on PubllePurchase.com and advertised on the County's Internet to <br />obtain Microsoft Large Account resellers (LARS), which resulted in six LARS responding to the <br />solicitation. The County evaluated the responses and recommends that Insight Public Sector <br />Inc. be awarded as the primary LAR for Riverside County, and the remaining five, CompuCom <br />Systems, Inc., Dell Marketing, L.P., Enpointe Technologies Sales Inc, PC Mall Gov, Inc, and <br />Softchoice Corporation also be awarded for use by other governmental entities to allow these <br />entities the option to select their LAR based on their own geographical or other criteria. These <br />LARS shall be authorized to offer a contract for any government entity in California to enroll '. into <br />the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement through December 31, 2016. <br />25D -39 <br />