Final bids are now due Feb. 17 for the contract that will provide an enterprise cloud-based email system to the state government.
The date has been pushed back twice since the bid was released in November.
“Due to the complex business requirements of more than 80 departments, the California Email Services2 (CES2) procurement from the State of California has been extended; the Final Bid due date is February 17, 2015. Any further changes to the IFB will be issued via an addendum,” said Teala Schaff, the California Department of Technology’s deputy director of external affairs and communications.
The next version of California Email Services (CES) will become the state’s primary email platform, expanding upon the current CES hosted by Microsoft in the Office 365 environment.
In 2010, the state procured Computer Sciences Corp.’s (CSC) Microsoft solution for email on a three-year, $50 million deal with options for two one-year extensions. That contract was written such that state agencies and departments could choose between the cloud-based CES or the on-premises CA Mail. It was one of the only two-pronged email structures of its kind in government.
Now the state wants a system that is 100 percent owned, managed and hosted by the contractor through the CES, which shapes up as one of the biggest government email systems of its kind. The state wants the system to be scalable up to 250,000 mailboxes in order to accommodate current and future needs.
For more information about this opportunity, go to Techwire’s Bids Page.
Related: State Releases Bid for California Email Services (Nov. 5, 2014)
