County of Monterey - File #: 19-1280

• File #: 19-1280
• Name: Mythics Oracle Hosting
• Type: General Agenda Item
• Status: Passed - Department of Social Services
• File created: 1/17/2019
• In control: Board of Supervisors
• On agenda: 1/29/2019
• Final action: 1/29/2019
• Title: a. Authorize the Monterey County Contracts/Purchasing Officer, under the terms of National IPA Cooperative Agreement R141801, to approve purchase orders for Cloud Infrastructure from Oracle through 3rd Party reseller Mythics in an amount not to exceed $246,531.51 over a period of three years; and b. Authorize the Monterey County Contracts/Purchasing Officer to approve modifications to the purchase orders where the modifications do not exceed 10% of the current aggregate three-year total ($24,653).

Date	Action By	Action	Result
1/29/2019	Board of Supervisors	approved - department of social services	Pass

Title
a. Authorize the Monterey County Contracts/Purchasing Officer, under the terms of National IPA Cooperative Agreement R141801, to approve purchase orders for Cloud Infrastructure from Oracle through 3rd Party reseller Mythics in an amount not to exceed $246,531.51 over a period of three years; and
b. Authorize the Monterey County Contracts/Purchasing Officer to approve modifications to the purchase orders where the modifications do not exceed 10% of the current aggregate three-year total ($24,653).
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Monterey County Contracts/Purchasing Officer, under the terms of National IPA Cooperative Agreement R141801, to approve purchase orders for Cloud Infrastructure from Oracle through 3rd Party reseller Mythics in an amount not to exceed $246,531.51 over a period of three years; and
b. Authorize the Monterey County Contracts/Purchasing Officer to approve modifications to the purchase orders where the modifications do not exceed 10% of the current aggregate three-year total ($24,653).

SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Department of Social Services (DSS) proposes to use the hosted suite of Oracle Database platform to enhance the data tracking, analysis, and reporting of current and future administration of CalFresh and various other entitlements programs in Monterey County. By mining the existing data sets natively in Oracle, DSS is attempting to use this information to gain the operational knowledge necessary to forecast, understand and anticipate the shift in the needs of residents, forecast caseloads, and adequately assign resources to meet those needs. This will result in redeveloped organizational procedures to increase efficiencies in administration and distribution of entitlement programs.

Secondarily, the Oracle Software platform will allow DSS to create various levels of dashboards to reduce the costs incurred by responding to external entities' requests for information. The O...