The California Child Welfare - New System is one of the first state programs to use the newly minted “agile development pool.”
California’s Office of Systems Integration put together the “bench procurement to get a short list of vendors who can provide agile services to the state,” for the Child Welfare Digital Services project Cambria spokesperson Kimanh Doan told Techwire.
“This is very innovative. California is very leading-edge in doing so. Not many other states have even set up procurements of this type or have done projects with agile development,” Doan said.
The whole New System project is divided into modules that can be assigned to an approved list of vendors. The vendor pool was built with preapproved vendors so multiple modules could be contracted and built at once. The pool has been adopted by other departments.
“While we have a maximum value on the contract if all extensions are exercised, we do not exactly know what the total costs will be given the nature of the contract,” the lead on the licensing project, Anand Adoni, wrote in an email to Techwire.
Cambria Solutions was selected to develop the certification, approval and licensing system.
“We’re facilitating the activities related to licensing and approving of the homes and associated adults [around the children],” Doan said.
Cambria is still eligible to enter into another contract and work on other modules while engaged in building the licensing system.
