REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
AUGUST 3, 2016
A meeting of the Finance Committee was held on Wednesday, August 3, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
Alderman-at-Large Mark S. Cookson, Vice Chair, presided.
Members of the Committee present: Alderman-at-Large Mark S. Cookson, Vice Chair
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien
Alderman Benjamin M. Clemons
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Ken Siegel
Members not in Attendance: Mayor Jim Donchess
Also in Attendance: Mr. David G. Fredette, City Treasurer
Mr. Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Mr. Bruce Codagnone, Director of Information Technology
Mr. Bill Mansfield, Radio Systems Manager
Ms. Patty Crooker, Public Health Network Coordinator, City of Nashua
Mr. Jay Hunewell, Building Manager
Mr. Angelo Marino, GIS Manager
Mr. Justin Kates, Emergency Management Director
Ms. Heidi Peek-Kukula, Manager, Environmental Health
Ms. Bobbi Bagley, Director, Health & Community Services
PUBLIC COMMENT - None
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Purchase Lawson Upgrade on In-House Hosting (Value: $326, 163)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND CONTINGENT UPON BOARD OF
ALDERMEN APPROVAL, AWARD TWO CONTRACTS TO TEAM-ABSOLUTE IN THE AMOUNT OF
$253,800. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 122, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; CAPITAL
PROJECTS -— TECHNOLOGY; ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: “NGIN” ERP SYSTEM ($163,800) AND
GENERAL FUND OPERATING BUDGET- IT TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS ($90,000). ALSO APPROVED
IS THE PURCHASE OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FROM DELL AND MICROSOFT. FUNDS ARE
AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 122, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; CAPITAL PROJECTS -
TECHNOLOGY; ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: “NGIN” ERP SYSTEM ($72,363)
ON THE QUESTION
Mr. Bruce Codagnone, Director of Information Technology
Currently our ERP system, Lawson, is hosted by a company called ATOS and ATOS bought out the company
ACS, which was hosting the equipment. We had heard rumors that they were going to get out of the business
of hosting the government channels and only do healthcare. They informed us on July 7" that they were going
to get out of the hosting practice for the government entities and that our hosting contract would end when the
contract naturally ends on November 30". In order to do that, right now we were planning on doing an
upgrade to the application to version 10 and were working with them to get that done and that obviously has to
be put on hold because the first part is to migrate it out of there. Our plan is to bring it in-house so that we will
