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Page 3 Agenda Atta hment V Data Proces ing Bids The us r programs proposed will be written to our specifications and DDS will in truct our personnel in their operation. The programming contract calls for p yment only upon acceptance of each system by the County_ Each system will be designed to operate in an interactive mode so each user will have access to his records through CRT or Hard Copy type terminals located in their department. Funds for development of these systems ($19,040) are avail- able in the current Data Processing Budget or the user's budget as service bureau cost . }HONEYWELL We rer, rnmend Honeywell be eliminated because of its high cost and the lack of any proposed application software (programs). The hardware proposed seemed adequate to do the job but the high annual cost: of $67,585 (based on a six year lease purc ase of $4,142/mth, maintenance of $1 ,217/mth and systems software of $273/mth) priced them out of serious consideration. There are only two of er Honeywell users in the area. 3 . BURROUGHS We recommend Burroughs be eliminated because of its high cost. They proposed transferring all of the software from other units in Utah, Iowa, Georgia and North Carolina. This approach would work but any software transferred would have to be modified and some of the systems identified by Burrough would take major modifications. The proposed hardware is adequate bu the annual cost of $59,748 is too high. Burroughs has many Local Gover meat installations nationwide with at least ten in North Carolina. These installations have developed many applications that are available at little or not cost. Most of these systems are batch systems and we are trying to develop the on-line, interactive system_ The proposed hardware is very oowerful an1d is at an entry level with plenty of exrransinn ranahilit.-iPq_