Discussion and possible action to ratify A sixty (60) month lease (June 1 ,2025 through March 27, 2030) purchase Agreement (OMNIA NCPA 01-143 and DIR-CPO-5792), pursuant to Texas Local Government Code Section 271.101 et.seq. (Cooperative Purchasing Program Participation), between Dell Financial Services and Webb County for the purpose of financing a "Managed Detection and Response" and "Secureworks" software to monitor possible malicious activity which said software is being leased/purchased through the State of Texas Cooperative Purchasing Program for the Webb County Information Technology (IT) Department in an amount not to exceed SIX HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND FORTY DOLLARS ($638,040.00), with a proposed financing term of five (5) annual payments of $127,608.00 with the first annual payment due November 1, 2025, after commissioners court approval, subject to annual budgetary approval, and execution of the Contract by the County Judge, and any other matters incident thereto. [Account #1001-1280-001-443000-110 (Software Maintenance)]
 
Issue: To approve the lease purchase of the software in order for the County's IT Department to detect malicious activity on County's server. On April 14, 2025, on agenda item 16.a., the Commissioners Court approved the contract; however, due to the expiration and renewal of the TX Dir contract, SecureWorks can no longer be supported by TX DIR which necessitated its purchase through Omnia. Consequently, DFS had to separate the schedules, and because of this we had a reduction of approximately $17,160.00.  
 
Solution: Consider approval of a finance agreement with Dell Financial services to finance the lease/purchase of the software to detect malicious activity, which is being done through Cooperative Purchasing Program of the State of Texas, through the Department of Information Resources (DIR).
 
Result: The financing will fund the purchase of "Managed Detection and Response" software powered by Tegis XDR and "SecureWorks Tegis VDR" software for the County.

On April 14, 2025, on agenda item 16.a., the commissioner's court approved the contract; however, due to the expiration and renewal of the TX Dir contract, SecureWorks can no longer be supported by TX DIR which necessitated its purchase through Omnia. Consequently, DFS had to separate the schedules, and because of this we had a reduction of approximately $17,160.00.  

Schedule 011-6799324-003 remains valid; however, the total dollar amount has been adjusted to reflect the removal of the SecureWorks. An updated payment schedule and dollar amount have been communicated via a one-way letter.

Schedule 011-6799324-006 is the newest schedule for the SecureWorks placed on OMNIA

We have also included a DFS Proposal that shows both the MDR and SecureWorks solution with the new discounted price at $638,040.