Specifically, the Town of Poughkeepsie is looking for recommendations / suggestions / evaluations of all current IT areas, including: o Hardware evaluation: inventory of servers, drive arrays, backup systems, battery backups, PC’s, laptops, peripherals, printers, thumb drives. o Microsoft Server Environment: AD, Group Policy, Roaming Profiles, DHCP, Scopes o Network evaluation: firewall, switches, routers o Network line testing / attenuation / throughput o Network Infrastructure: VLAN, VPN, Wifi, o Cybersecurity protection: (both EDR and Network protection), PEN testing, employee education. o Backup Systems: On site backup, off site backup, redundancy, backup best practices, disaster recovery. o Software Infrastructure: evaluation and best practice usage for the following: ▪ Tyler Munis – On Prem ▪ ARC GIS - SAAS ▪ Municity 5 - SAAS ▪ Laserfiche – On Prem ▪ BAS iTax – On Prem ▪ BAS Licenses (Dog and Marriage) – On Prem ▪ Microsoft Office 365 - Cloud ▪ Microsoft Outlook (Outlook web). ▪ Adobe Town of Poughkeepsie Request For Proposal November 6, 2024 3 o Outside Consulting / IT Services o Daily practices / reporting / 5 year plan