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Or reach Cam directly at: [email protected] Just to note, Minneapolis is not yet one of the cities listed for their interest in sharing open data. Might technology support for open data be a condition of this contract? What about interfacing with efforts like OpenMuni - http://wiki.openmuni.org ? - Steven Clift, http://stevenclift.com ... Folks, I am looking for some advice about a pending city decision and am thinking some of you may have some valuable input to offer about it. The Citys Business Information Services department is recommending a renegotiation of the Citys contract for information/technology services with Unisys Corporation. The contract is set to expire in January 2013 and costs roughly $11 million a year. Under the proposed terms it would be extended for four years (through 2016) in exchange for some changes in service and a $280,000 savings in 2010 (and additional savings in future years) for ta otal cost to the City of over $45 million. I have had concerns about this contract for some time and do not think we should move forward with this extension without conducting an analysis of alternatives, including potentially going out for open bids on this contract, exploring moving some or all of this work back in-house, and investigating whether open-source software can better meet the Citys needs. I was able to get my colleagues to agree to a two-week delay on this action, and I hope this will lead us to do more due diligence work before extending this costly contract. The matter is set to come back to Council next Friday, August 6. The staff report with more information is included in item 11 here: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/2010-meetings/20100723/WM_agenda20100719.asp You can find a copy of the current agreement here: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/bis/UnisysAgreement.pdf I welcome any input, questions, suggestions and opinions. Thank you, Cam Gordon Minneapolis City Council Member, Second Ward 673-2202, 296-0579 [email protected] http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/ward2/ http://secondward.blogspot.com/ Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org Follow me - http://twitter.com/democracy New Tel: +1.612.234.7072 ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/7istGxii9w4uxEMdk64IfM For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
