NASHUA POLICE
Date: 37 July 2079
intradepartmenta!l Communication
To: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
From: Peter Cinfo, IT Manager - Police
Subject: Storage
The Nashua Police Department Information Technology Division is requesting the purchase of a new
Storage Area Network (SAN) to replace aging equipment. Our current SAN was purchased back in 2010
and has served us well but is far beyond the 5 year industry (and department) standard for replacement.
While we do have other SAN's within our network, this particular piece of equipment is a much higher-end
product designed to have 99.9% up time and specifications that allow for high traffic data return rates.
While the others are nearly half of that specification, this particular SAN is the storage for each of the
departments 18 virtual servers, 17 virtual Desktops, and most importantly, all Records Management and
Dispatch software. | have been advised that our current product has been marked as “END OF LIFE" and
most parts will begin to become unavailable. Just recently one of the hard drives failed and we were
forced to seek out an aftermarket vendor on the Internet to get the replacement parts needed. As you can
imagine without this particular SAN, server and network operations will be, greatly affected. Unfortunately,
ihis particular item cannot be purchased and upgraded “in pieces” from year-to-year. It must be a one-time
full purchase. Three vendors were contacted for quotes as listed below.
VENDOR NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT
Axis Business Solutions Portsmouth, NH $39,732.19
Aspire Technologies Inc Portsmouth, NH $45,903.00
Hewlett Packard Enterprises Andover, MA $92,659.03
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The Nashua Police Department recommends that the purchase be made through the vendor with the
lowest quoted price, which was received from “Axis Business Solutions” in the amount of $39,732.19 for
the replacement SAN quoted at the Nashua Police Department.
Sincerely,
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Peter Cinf
IT Manag¢r - Police
