A resolution approving a proposed Professional Services Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Gartner, Inc. for membership to Gartner's Executive, IT Leadership Team Leader and Technical Professional Programs to provide essential insights and advice for the City's Technology leaders. Approves a contract with Gartner, Inc. for $1,656,590.99 and through 12-31-26 for membership to Gartner's Executive, IT Leadership Team Leader and Technical Professional Programs to provide essential insights and advice for the City's Technology leaders (TECHS-202160570). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 1-24-22. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 12-21-21.
Councilmember Ortega You can go ahead with your questions on item 21, Dash 1523. Thanks, Madam President. This is a contract for our I.T. department. It's basically for our I.T. leadership team providing some technical and professional. It says programs. I'm not sure what that really entails. This is when I did not have an opportunity to reach out to the agency to get information about. But I'm asking Sky if you can have someone from our I.T. department to get back to me. I went back and looked at our budget for 2022 and there are at least seven. Administrative or leadership positions in both the operations and application section as well as the Chief Information Officers. Category in the budget, and it includes a network engineer, a senior database adviser, an I.T. director, LT administrator, a lead I.T. tech and I.T. systems architect. So with all of that expertize, I'm just questioning why we need an additional outside entity to assist us in, I guess, looking at some of the needs. I know that one of our biggest challenges that we have in our city is some of the breaches, I guess is the word I'll use. There are multiple attempts on a regular basis of people trying to hack our system. And, you know, the fact that we have so many different platforms that. Basically many of our different agencies rely upon. We've become a. A world, actually, where we're dependent on technology to help us get our day to day business done. I can remember being the council president when we were just launching our connection to the Internet, where council members were starting to get set up with Internet so we could start interfacing with our constituents in that way. And that's pretty much how we all communicate these days. Very rarely do you see an actual letter being sent because most of the communication is so much quicker and easier to be done via email. But I guess I just don't really understand the the need for this particular contract. And I'm going to abstain until I can get the information from our I.T. department and make sure that I have that that comfort level with it moving forward. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Councilmember Ortega, did you have any questions that you wanted to pose to anyone from an agency this evening? I don't know that we have anybody from our I.T. department here. I see Skye Stuart is here and I apologize. I was so focused on the airport stuff, I didn't have a chance to really look at this one. No worries. And this guy is coming up. I want to just correct. I believe I had said it was 13 or 15, 23 and it's actually 1532. And I just wanted to correct that for the record. But go ahead and introduce yourselves, guys. Sure. Guys, start from the mayor's office and certainly. I'll defer, of course, Spinnaker or Joe. Separate or online. I know they're not here tonight. But somebody might be online but happy to have them. Get back to you, Councilman, the very basics of this is that this is an organization, it's a technology research organization that as we join in membership, we have access to over to 2000 experts that help us really look at. Data driven and best practice. Research and making decisions about what applications we. Sign on to and purchase of. The city. As you noted, we've really expanded the use of different applications over the years. This will help us have access to research and resources that look at whether those applications are the right ones for us to pursue as a city has the pros and cons of what happens with them. So it's really a membership organization that gives us access to a body of research and a body of expertize that we wouldn't have in-house. If I may. Madam President, Skye, do you know if this is the first time that we're doing this, or is this a renewing contract? It is. That is a good question. I I don't know the answer to that. This is certainly the first time I remember it coming. The council. Had. An earlier version that was maybe a smaller a smaller time period and a smaller amount, but happy to have. Tech services reach out to you with an answer to that. So our membership is the 1.656 amount. Over five years. Yes. Okay. Okay. All right. Yeah. Do you know if we have either one of those two parties online? We I believe we have Josep Prieto. Oh, correct. Anything I said wrong? Yeah. We'll get him into the queue. Thank you. Madam President. Thank you. And thank you, Sky. And thank you. Council member Sawyer. She let me know that Jo Jo was on. So go ahead, please, Jo. Good evening, everyone. Joel Severino in Technology Services. I think the question to me was, have we used Gardner in the past? Yes, we have. I believe we used to do this on a purchase order, but there are legal terms that. Are not. Appropriate for a purchase order. So we are doing this via a contract now. Five year contract, right? Correct. I think Sky did a good job explaining what this is and what we get for it. So I appreciate that explanation because it wasn't clear to me in just reviewing the information. So thank you very much. All right. Thank you, Joe. And thank you, Sky. And just remember Ortega. Did you just want to ask questions on. Yes. Yes. All right. I didn't know if you had mentioned abstain, so we didn't know. If you want, we'll just leave it on content. Okay. All right. Perfect. Thank you. Or are you good? Yes. Okay. All right, great. All right. We're going to go ahead and move on. Madam Secretary, please put the next item on our screens. Thank you. Councilmember Clark, will you please put Council Resolution 21, dash 1512 on the floor for adoption?