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<p class="MsoNormal">Trish, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I do not have an RFP but have a couple of vendors to whom you should send it –
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<p class="MsoNormal">Knight Technology Group is our outside network engineering firm and, though a small company, Ken and his assistants are excellent and extremely well qualified, install lots and lots of servers and networks so they know the latest and newest
info and requirements – have been virtualizing our system gradually over the last year and are almost done. We didn’t do an RFP because we work with them regularly so just engaged them to do this extra work for us. ( I think they work with Christine Hage also)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ken Rutyna<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Knight Technology Group <a href="http://www.ktg-corp.com/">http://www.ktg-corp.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They are based in Royal Oak but can work anywhere up and down I-75 easily. FPL has worked with them for 10+ years.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Another great tech company – if anything happened to Knight, I’d be working with them – they already do our Erate and have done for 5+ years:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John Foster<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Convergent Technology Partners <a href="http://www.ctpartners.net/">
http://www.ctpartners.net/</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Based in Flint<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kay<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kay Schwartz<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St., Flint, MI 48502<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phone: 810-249-2038<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fax: 810-249-2633<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Email: kschwartz@fpl.info<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:47:27 -0500<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">From: Trish Burns <<a href="mailto:tburns@saginawlibrary.org">tburns@saginawlibrary.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">To: "<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mail2.mcls.org">michlib-l@mail2.mcls.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mail2.mcls.org">michlib-l@mail2.mcls.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Subject: [Michlib-l] RFP template<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Message-ID:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <<a href="mailto:A3904E30EF6A0E4CA68A9587F4274EB4F50678E900@hexsrv1.saginawlibrary.org">A3904E30EF6A0E4CA68A9587F4274EB4F50678E900@hexsrv1.saginawlibrary.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Good morning -<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">We are planning a project to move to a virtualized server environment and need to do an RFP for the project. Does anyone have a sample they would be willing to share? Please reply directly to me. Thanks in advance -<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Trish Burns<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Director, Public Libraries of Saginaw<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">505 Janes Avenue<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Saginaw, MI 48607<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">989-755-9833<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:tburns@saginawlibrary.org">tburns@saginawlibrary.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">ALA Councilor for Michigan<o:p></o:p></p>
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