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HomeMy WebLinkAboutFIN-07-132 - Legal Agreements for the Corporate Financial & Infrastructure Management System (Delta Project)KITC~NER Financial Services REPORT Report To: Mayor Carl Zehr and Members of Council Date of Meeting: November 5, 2007 Submitted By: Dan Chapman, Director Financial Planning and Reporting, Rosemary Upfold, Director Accounting; Mike Grummett, Director Information Technology; Grant Murphy, Director Engineering; Pauline Houston, General Manager Financial Services and City Treasurer Prepared By: Pauline Houston, Lesley MacDonald City Solicitor Ward(s) Involved: All Date of Report: October 31, 2007 Report No.: FIN-07-132 Subject: Legal Agreements for the Corporate Financial and Infrastructure Management System (Delta Project) RECOMMENDATION: THAT the Mayor and Clerk be authorized to execute the legal agreements with IDS Scheer Canada, SAP Canada Inc, ESRI Canada Inc. and Loki Innovations (RIVA) for the Corporate Financial and Infrastructure Management System project. BACKGROUND: On August 13, 2007, Council passed the following resolution relative to this project: "That Request for Proposal P07-025, Corporate Financial and Infrastructure Management System (Delta Project), be awarded to IDS Scheer Canada, SAP Canada Inc, ESRI Canada Inc. and Loki Innovations (RIVA), subject to the successful negotiation of the agreement(s), satisfactory to the City Solicitor; and further, That the agreement(s) be forwarded to Council for approval prior to execution of the document(s)." REPORT: In response to the Council direction as outlined above, Staff and outside legal counsel from Blake Cassels and Graydon have completed negotiations for the above agreements with the vendors. In addition, as risk assessor for this project, KPMG has made a series of recommendations to the City contract negotiating team for improvements/changes to these contracts to mitigate areas of risk identified. All of those recommendations were taken into account during the negotiation process to the extent possible. Also, Project Steering Committee members and Project Task Force staff have been closely involved in the detailed review of the agreements to ensure that the City's system specifications/requirements have been thoroughly addressed. FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS: None related to this report recommendation. The Delta Project has been budgeted at an overall estimated cost of $7.076 million, which has been included and approved in the capital forecast. COMMUNICATION: An internal communications plan for the project has been completed and ready to be rolled out to staff. Pauline Houston, CA General Manager of Financial Services & City Treasurer Rosemary Upfold, Director Accounting Grant Murphy, Director Engineering Dan Chapman, Director Financial Planning and Reporting Mike Grummett, Director Information Technology Lesley MacDonald, City of Kitchener Solicitor PH/mf