Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, December 06, 2022
Consent
SUBJECT:
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CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF CONTRACT AMENDMENT NO. 3 WITH CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC FOR INTERNET AND POINT-TO-POINT DATA CIRCUIT SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF CARSON (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
The City of Carson ("City") and Charter Communications Operating, LLC ("Consultant"), entered into that certain Agreement for Contractual Services dated January 23, 2018 ("Agreement") where Consultant agreed to provide point to point data circuits to all City of Carson facilities, and internet to City Hall, Carson Park, Corporate Yard, Community Center, and Veterans Park/Sports Complex, as well as local and long-distance phone service to all City of Carson facilities.
The Agreement has been twice amended, once on July 17, 2018 to modify the Contract Sum from $680,208.64 to $782,696.88 because the Contract Sum in the Agreement reflected an underestimated amount of likely fees and taxes to which the services are subject, and again on December 24, 2020, to increase the bandwidth available at various City parks, to allow City to operate its Wifi in the Park program at those parks, and to increase the Contract Sum by an amount of $23,561.60, from $782,696.88 to $806,258.48.
The Agreement term is for 36 months extendable by mutual consent by an additional 12 months on a month-to-month basis. Based on the nature of services where the start date of services for each location to be provided ("Serviced Locations") was staggered, the term as respecting each location commenced on the date the services became functional in all material aspects and available for use by City for each such location. By way of example, the term with respect to the City Hall location commenced October 3, 2019, and expired October 2, 2022 ("City Hall Expiration Date"), and for Hemingway Park, it commenced July 23, 2020, and will expire July 22, 2023.
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