Submitted By
Ahmad M. Zayyad, Deputy Village Manager; and Alvin Nepomuceno, Director of Information Technology
Reviewed By
LS
Agenda Item Title
Title
A Resolution Approving a GIS Consortium Service Provider Contract with Municipal GIS Partners, Incorporated in an Amount Not to Exceed $133,515.00 and Authorizing its Execution
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Overview
Overview
On August 4, 2014, Regular Meeting, the Village Board directed staff to join the Local GIS Consortium. This was an opportunity for the Village to greatly improve GIS capabilities by providing all Village employees with training and access to GIS, as well as, providing an opportunity for some public access to GIS information. As a result, this is the annual contract approval to provide GIS services to the Village using the shared resources of 41 communities. A list of specific project highlights in 2022, as well as goals for 2023, are attached to this item.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
Adopt the Resolution
Background
The Village Board approved joining the Local GIS Consortium on October 20, 2015. The GIS Consortium is considered a best practice initiative in which over 41 communities in Cook, Lake, DuPage, and Will counties collaborated to outsource their GIS technology needs with a single private sector service provider. This allowed all communities in the Consortium to share the management, staffing, knowledge, and standardization associated with GIS.
The use of GIS for the Village of Oak Park is part of the Village's IT Strategic Plan previously reviewed by the Civic Information Systems Commission (CISC) as well as the Village Board. A listing of this year's specific accomplishments for both Oak Park as well as the MGP (the private sector provider for the Consortium) is attached as well as goals for the new year.
The GIS Site Analysts are managed by the Information Technology Director. The work is coordinated for all of the Departments. While some of this work is useful to internal operations...
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