complex. ESRI ArcGIS is the city GIS standard for mapping & spatial analysis. Sun setting ESRI within the SPD would be need to be evaluated as a value proposition as we need to maintain compatibility with the City’s GIS system. Using other software (using the appropriate OGC standards) could mitigate some of those risks. 46 3/04/15 3/17/15 c) Do vendors need to account for licensing or other If the vendor’s solution exclusively ongoing support costs for any of these tools? leverages ESRI for mapping and spatial analysis, they would need to account for additional licensing costs required by the project that are over & above the licensing we currently have in place. Ongoing support would be handled by in-house GIS staff and the City of Seattle Enterprise License Agreement with ESRI. If the vendor’s GIS solution does not leverage ESRI, then the vendor should account for any and all licensing costs for GIS tools, data, services, and imagery, as well as ongoing support costs for maintaining such in the application. The more standards-compliant the GIS toolset, the less ongoing support will be assigned to the vendor 47 3/04/15 3/17/15 Future users of the new DAP :
complex. ESRI ArcGIS is the city GIS standard for mapping & spatial analysis. Sun setting ESRI within the SPD would be need to be evaluated as a value proposition as we need to maintain compatibility with the City’s GIS system. Using other software (using the appropriate OGC standards) could mitigate some of those risks. 46 3/04/15 3/17/15 c) Do vendors need to account for licensing or other ongoing support costs for any of these tools? If the vendor’s solution exclusively leverages ESRI for mapping and spatial analysis, they would need to account for additional licensing costs required by the project that are over & above the licensing we currently have in place. Ongoing support would be handled by in-house GIS staff and the City of Seattle Enterprise License Agreement with ESRI. If the vendor’s GIS solution does not leverage ESRI, then the vendor should account for any and all licensing costs for GIS tools, data, services, and imagery, as well as ongoing support costs for maintaining such in the application. The more standards-compliant the GIS toolset, the less ongoing support will be assigned to the vendor 47 3/04/15 3/17/15 Future users of the new DAP :
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