Agency MNIT

Contractor Sirius Computer Solutions Inc.

SWIFT Contract Number 176008

Project Name Configure and Implement Citrix Environment

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Summarize purpose of the contract, including why it was necessary: Revenue currently uses a Citrix solution for production and disaster recovery. The environment consists of two Citrix Netscalers. One device is installed in our local Data Center and the other is installed at our Disaster Recovery Site. We are working toward a solution that is highly available and provide seamless transition to secondary data center in case the primary fails or is unavailable. Review of the current setup and configuration is needed and recommendations on how to achieve desired results. Additional recommendations to ensure full utilization of our Citrix environment. Determine business and technical needs of ongoing Citrix environments.

Project Duration

Start Date Tue, 05/05/2020 - 00:00

Original end date Tue, 06/30/2020 - 00:00

Actual end date Wed, 12/30/2020 - 00:00

Did project finish on time? Yes

Total billable hours utilized (if applicable) 52.5

Contract Amounts

Original contract: $24975.00

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Contract total $11812.50

Did project finish within budget? Yes

What was the funding source? State

Is this a sole source contract? No

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Evaluator Name Gary Grethel

Evaluator Email Address Gary.Grethel@state.mn.us

Evaluate the contractor's timeliness The contractor was consistently on time and returned all emails and phone calls in a timely manner

Evaluate the contractor's quality The contractor did a very good job at staying on task and we always were on schedule with any work that was planned. Any issues that came up were promptly resolved.

Evaluate the contractor's cost Costs were consistent with what other vendors charged in the past.

Evaluate the contractor's overall performance Excellent – very well versed with Citrix and was able to explain complex concepts in a simple manner to all project team members

Would you engage the contractor's services again? Yes

Describe any negative action taken during the duration of this contract (i.e., termination, pursuit of suspension, etc.): N/A

Please rate the overall experience with the contractor 5 - very satisfied