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Modivg Meows
Wednesday, April 15, 1998
ATTENDEES: Al Douglas, William LaPm, William Eastman, Dave Little, T.S. Martvel
mended PC'
A list was provided to the Committee to review the diff ent models ofPC's to be considered for
pmchau and/or repaved. The PCSthatwemonthelisCare Cateway2000,1iP,Deh,Meron,
Acer, Compaq and SBM Before any of the machines would be selected, the Committee wanted to
review the vendor survey that was sent out for information regrading the PC's that they sell,
assemble and/or service.
A survey was sent to 18 local vendors requesting indbudefion regarding selling PC's and whether
they assembled the PC's andlor repaired them. Also asked was what PC's they were certified to
service, the number of ce technicians on site, response time for supports (telephone or on
site),their service razes and ind'ormation regarding senvice contracts. Six vendors responded to
the survey. The Committee mw.ewed all ofthe quesfiom ofeach vendor. There wasdiscussion in
demi) about getting a customer dst from each of these vendors so that some of the customers cart
be called to be asked about the service provided by [haat vendor. The Committee will be putting
together a letter and some questions to be asked. This information will he sent out to the sic
vendors. The sir vendors are: Digital Equipment Corporation, SJ Rollins Technologies, Ird'otek,
Downtime, Inc., Custom PC Company and Cyber Data, he. Thus information will be given to the
Purchasing Department and will be followed up within the next tento twelve days.
Copia ofE-Mail and Internet policies were reviewed and discussed. An E -Mail and an Internet
policy were selected to be used for the City of Bangor. A draft of these policies will be typed up
and given to Bob Parmr for review and editin& if necessary. The draft policies will Wen be given
to the City Solicitor for review. The procedure to distributethae policies were discussed and -
vadous ideas were put on the table. No procedure as to how it should be done was finalized.
This will happen after the draft policies are accepted by management.
William IaPan marooned that monetary figures for the project were given to Ed Barrett No
conclusion has been reached regarding the fmanccs of the project.
No meeting has been scheduled. The Committee will be waiting for the vendor's information to
come back and be reviewed by Purchasing. This information and any other loose ends that need
to be addressed will determine the next meeting of me Committee.
With no further business to discuss, the meeting adjourned.