Independent Review ($25,000 Maximum)

Description - On behalf of the Secretary of Administration, the CIO is required to obtain independent expert review of any recommendation for any information technology activity when its total cost is $500,000.00 or greater. The independent review must include an acquisition cost assessment, a technology architecture review, an implementation plan assessment, a cost analysis and a model for benefit analysis and a procurement negotiation advisory services contract. In addition, from time to time special reviews of the advisability and feasibility of certain types of IT strategies may be required.
 

Examples of Potential SOW:
• Identify acquisition and lifecycle costs;
• Assess wide are network (WAN) and/or local area network (LAN) impact;
• Assess risks and/or review technical risk assessments of an IT project including security, data classification(s), subsystem designs, architectures, and computer systems in terms of their impact on costs, benefits, schedule and technical performance;
• Assess, evaluate and critically review implementation plans, e.g.:
• Adequacy of support for conversion and implementation activities
• Adequacy of department and partner staff to provide Project Management
• Adequacy of planned testing procedures
• Acceptance/readiness of staff
• Schedule soundness
• Adequacy of training pre and post project
• Assess proposed technical architecture to validate conformance to the State’s “strategic direction.” Insure system use toolsets and strategies are consistent with State Chief Information Office (CIO) policies, including security and digital records management;
• Assess the architecture of the proposed hardware and software with regard to security and systems integration with other applications within the Department, and within the Agency, and existing or planned Enterprise Applications;
• Perform cost and schedule risk assessments to support various alternatives to meet mission need, recommend alternative courses of action when one or more interdependent segment(s) or phase(s) experience a delay, and recommend opportunities for new technology insertions;
• Assess the architecture of the proposed hardware and software with regard to the state of the art in this technology.
• Assess a project’s backup/recovery strategy and the project’s disaster recovery plans for adequacy and conformance to State policy.
• Evaluate the ability of a proposed solution to meet the needs for which the solution has been proposed, define the ability of the operational and user staff to integrate this solution into their work.
 

Approved Vendors and Contract Number:
 
13879 - C2 Competitive Computing (802) 764-1700 Martin Thieret Martin.Thieret@Competitive.com 
14148 - Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker (207) 775-2387 Timothy Masse TMasse@bdmp.com 
13980 - Fujitsu Consulting (603) 475-3778 Mike Dougherty michael.dougherty@us.fujitsu.com
14147 - Gallagher, Flynn & Co. (802) 863-1331 Dave Gadway dgadway@gfc.com 
14026 - Northeast Computer Systems (802) 626-1050 Timothy King tim@necomp.com paulg@necomp.com 
14356 - Panurgy Corp (802) 658-7788 Diane Kerbaugh dkerbaugh@panurgyvt.com 
14021 - S3 Technologies, Inc. (401) 862-1488 Stephen Fletcher sfletcher@s3tec.com 
13878 - Smart BA & Consulting (518) 225-3512 Geoffrey Plante gplante@smartgrp.com 
14023 - Symbiosys Solutions, Inc. (603) 880-7771 Arvind Ranade arvind@symbiosysinc.com 
14139 - Symquest Group, Inc (802) 658-9870 Mark Rickner mrickner@symquest.com