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aRANGE couNTY <br />BQARD G~ CQMMISSGNERS <br />ACTIt]N AGENDA STEM ABSTRACT <br />Mee~~ng Date: December 3, ~DO7 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Bid Award: Connect "Gatewa Cam us" to Count Com uter Network <br />DEPARTMENT: infiormation Technology PUB~.IC HEARING. ~YIN~ No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />NF~RMATI(lN CaNTAGT: <br />Todd Jones, X45-2285 <br />David Cannell, 245-~55 <br />PURPaSE: To consider approving a contract with Intellicom, Inc. of Durham, Noah Carolina to <br />install data networking fiber between the new "Gateway Campus" and the Grange County <br />computer network. <br />gAC~GR4UND: In 200 the County installed a fiber network in the downtown area connecting <br />the County's server room with; <br />® The Link Center <br />• Government Services Annex <br />• Sherifir <br />• New Court Mouse <br />• old Court House <br />• Court Street Annex <br />• Clerk 0f Court Annex <br />The County fiber network allows County computers and servers to interconnect, providing staff <br />access to email, fide servers, application servers, the Internet, municipal partners and other <br />computing resources. With the construction of the three new buildings for the "Gateway <br />Campus" the Gateway building, the office building and the Library}, the Information <br />Technologies department needs to provide a networking connection so staffi at those facilities <br />can connect with the County network. <br />The Purchasing and the Infiormation Technologies Department solicited bids from qualified <br />vendors to perform the interconnection work. The requirements for this work include: <br />• AlI easement and right of way negotiations with the North Carolina Department of <br />Transportation ~NCDGT} private and public utilities <br />