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CASE <br /> <br />RECEIVE BIDS AND AWARD CONTRACT FOR INTEGRATED COMPUTER <br />SYSTEM AND NOVELL NETWORK - SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE <br /> By: Jessie L. Hart, Finance Officer <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />On February 8, 1995, sealed bids were received and opened at the Municipal Center for an <br />integrated computer system and Novell network. The bids were to include responses to the <br />availability of varying levels of software, financial and non-financial based. The bids were also to <br />include costs of acquiring new hardware as well as utilizing as much existing hardware as <br />possible. <br /> <br />The following is a list of the desired programs and activities for the new system, listed in the order <br />of priority: <br /> <br />Integrated Financial System(s) - <br /> General Ledger <br /> Accounts Payable/Cash Disbursements <br /> Accounts Receivable/Cash Receipting/Cash Register/Inter-active Cash Drawer <br /> Payroll/Personnel/Human Resources System <br /> Purchase Order System <br /> Budgetary System <br /> Project Accounting <br /> Special Assessments <br /> Licenses and Permits [Business and Non-Business] <br /> Fixed Asset System <br /> Investments System <br /> Geobase Management <br /> <br />Non-Financial System(s) - <br /> Novell Network [includes upgrading all software to newest versions] <br /> Data Retention [optical scanning or similar techniques] <br /> <br />Bids were received from major vendors across the country that have active client sites in the <br />metropolitan area or are located in the immediate area. Those vendors were as follows: <br /> <br />FundWorks, Inc. <br />LOGIS <br />Computoservice <br />Fund Balance/PLUS <br />Therefore Systems, Inc. <br />Pentamation, Inc <br />Software Tailors, Inc. <br />STAT Computers <br /> <br />White Bear Lake, Minnesota <br />Brooklyn Center, Minnesota <br />Mankato, Minnesota <br />Ann Arbor, Michigan <br />Portland, Oregon <br />Bethlehem, Pennsylvania <br />Minneapolis, Minnesota <br />Eden Prairie, Minnesota <br /> <br />Six vendors responded to ali or part of the integrated financial systems requirements; three vendors <br />responded to both the integrated financial systems requirements and the Novell networks <br />specifications; one vendor responded to only the Novell network system specifications; and one <br />vendor responded to the data retention requirements. <br /> <br /> <br />