Memorandum
DATE: June 17, 2021
TO: Administration and Finance Committee
FROM: Tegin Teich, Executive Director, Central Transportation Planning Staff
RE: Draft Proposed Five-Year Plan (SFY 2022–26) for Computer Resources Development
The Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS) prepares a Five-Year Computer Plan annually, with the goal of updating the plan each state fiscal year (SFY) to better represent the computing infrastructure investment needs of the agency. The plan typically includes hardware and software that are considered to be major reinvestments or cost more than $5,000 per single item.
In the past five years, CTPS has made significant progress in updating and replacing its computing infrastructure and ancillary support systems. The following details the total cost of these investments by year.
Progress made during SFY 2017 ($44,200)
Progress made during SFY 2018 ($55,150)
Progress made during SFY 2019 ($49,800)
Progress made during SFY 2020 ($49,000)
Progress made during SFY 2021 ($40,500)
CTPS proposes the following direct purchases for SFY 2022:
In SFY 2023 CTPS must replace the EMC Data Domain disk backup appliance that will reach its end of life on July 31, 2022. The backup appliance is used to backup all CTPS data for up to six months; after that time our data is stored on backup tapes.
In the outer years of this plan, it will be necessary to replace the file server, firewall server, VMware host servers, plotters, and several dedicated TransCAD workstations.
Cost estimates for SFY 2022–26 proposed purchases are shown in the attached Table 1 – Direct Charges for Computer Purchases by Fiscal Year. The allocation of direct funding by source is shown at the bottom of Table 1 in the column for SFY 2022. The funding will be adequate for CTPS to advance the implementation of the plan in SFY 2022. All future year funding will be proposed during the annual update process.
Table 1 – Direct Charges for Computer Purchases by Fiscal Year
Table 1
Direct Charges for Computer Purchases by Fiscal Year
| Item |
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SFY 2026 |
SFY 2022–26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Workstations |
$0 |
$0 |
$26,000 |
$39,000 |
$52,000 |
$117,000 |
Dedicated workstation for |
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$26,000 |
$39,000 |
$52,000 |
$65,000 |
Servers |
$57,500 |
$0 |
$24,000 |
$16,000 |
$0 |
$58,500 |
Replace VMware server "formerly |
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$16,000 |
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$16,000 |
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Replace file server "lilliput" |
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$12,000 |
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$12,000 |
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Replace application server "appsrvr3" |
$18,500 |
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$18,500 |
Replace VMware server "formerly webserver" |
$13,000 |
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Two VMware Horizons servers to |
$26,000 |
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Replace VMware server purchased in SFY 2019 |
$12,000 |
$12,000 |
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Peripherals |
$0 |
$0 |
$0 |
$5,000 |
$5,000 |
$10,000 |
Replace plotter purchased in |
$5,000 |
$5,000 |
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Replace plotter purchased in |
$5,000 |
$0 |
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Network and Computer Room |
$0 |
$61,600 |
$6,000 |
$0 |
$0 |
$67,600 |
Replace firewall hardware |
$6,000 |
$6,000 |
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Replace EMC backup system |
$61,600 |
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$61,600 |
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Total |
$57,500 |
$61,600 |
$56,000 |
$60,000 |
$57,000 |
$292,100 |
Source of Funding for SFY 2022:
FFY 2021 3C Combined Contract $13,000
FFY 2022 3C Combined Contract $44,500
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