The Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) has awarded a $68.7 million contract for IT modernization to CGI Inc. The contract runs for five years.
CGI, which announced the award Tuesday in a news release, said its Advantage Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution was selected as part of LACOE’s Business Enhancement System Transformation (BEST) project. The education office wanted a system that would give local educational agencies access to online data and reports through a highly adaptable and scalable system that meets end-user needs. CGI says the project will improve access to financial and HR business data, provide a user-friendly interface and allow adaptability to evolving regulations that impact local school districts.
LACOE is the nation’s largest regional education agency, and provides programs and support for more than 135 educational agencies and 1.5 million K-12 students in Los Angeles County. LACOE operates the payroll for approximately 150,000 employees with more than 300,000 job assignments and supports more than 80,000 monthly payments for approximately 1.1 million active vendors.
CGI Group Inc. is the fifth-largest independent information technology and business process services firm in the world, with about 70,000 professionals serving thousands of global customers across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
