Legislation Details

File #: AB2021-478    Version: 1
Type: Bid Award Status: Authorized by Consent
File created: 7/30/2021 Meeting Body Council Finance and Administrative Services Committee
On agenda: 8/10/2021 Final action: 8/10/2021
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Request approval for the County Executive to enter into a contract for a 3-year subscription to KnowBe4 for cyber security awareness training and simulated phishing software platform with SHI International Corporation, using the Washington State Contract #06016, in an amount not to exceed $50,409.22
Indexes: Information Technology, Purchasing
Attachments: 1. Staff Memo, 2. Contract #202108024
Department Finance Division

Primary Contact Email:    swinger@co.whatcom.wa.us

 

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Request approval for the County Executive to enter into a contract for a 3-year subscription to KnowBe4 for cyber security awareness training and simulated phishing software platform with SHI International Corporation, using the Washington State Contract #06016, in an amount not to exceed $50,409.22

 

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Per WCC 3.08.100(A), Information Technology requests approval to use the Washington State Contract #06016 (expires 01/07/2022) to purchase a 3-year subscription for the KnowBe4 cyber security awareness training and simulated phishing software platform, as recommended by the Washington Counties Risk Pool (WCRP), in an amount not to exceed $50,409.22 (paid in annual installments of $16,803.07). The WCRP has a Cyber Security Awareness Reimbursement Program that will reimburse members for such subscriptions. Adequate budget authority exists in the current Information Techonology base budget for this reimbursable expenditure