CDFW’s Data and Technology Division issued a Request for Offer (RFO) Monday seeking a “qualified CMAS contractor to provide IT consulting services – specifically, an Operations Management (OM) consultant to work as an operation manager with CDFW, other state control agencies, consultants and the ALDS contractor during the system’s operations phase. The ALDS contractor is Aspira Connect, a CDFW spokesperson told Techwire via email. Among the takeaways:
• ALDS was stood up in two phases from 2010 through 2013, and it automates manual license issuing at 11 CDFW offices and around 1,350 retail sites around the state, in what the RFO describes as “an online relational database management system.” CDFW issues more than 5 million documents annually, generating around $120 million. With ALDS now in operations and maintenance mode, DTD seeks a contractor to serve as operations manager (OM) – noting: “The department requests that the contractor shall make available to the state one resource to serve as the primary OM; and may, at the sole discretion of the contractor, propose a consultant team in order to meet all of the requirements and accomplish all tasks.” The primary OM must be Project Management Professional/Project Management Institute certified. The previous OM was Andes Consulting, the spokesperson said.
• Tasks and requirements include managing Design Change Requests and providing management support for ongoing change control processes; managing the ALDS formal change management process including documenting new change requests; facilitating regular change management meetings; providing management for ALDS production issues and defects; and assisting the contractor in managing releases to CDFW testing and production environments.
The applicant selected will also be responsible for leading CDFW review and acceptance of ALDS operations document deliverables including its software development, business operations and technology architecture plans; and working with License and Revenue Branch staff to test and implement “major changes that require participation of staff” and complete tasks related to ALDS business operations.
• The minimum technical qualifications for proposed staff include at least three years’ experience in providing similar project management services, managing a formal change management process and administering and managing system production issues and defects; and at least two years managing system quality control including User Acceptance Training, providing test results and tracking defects and issues uncovered during testing.
• The contract term will be June 30-Dec. 31, 2023, and the total contract value is not to exceed $499,999.99. Offers are due by 3 p.m. April 27. If interviews are needed, they will be conducted from April 28-May 1. RFO evaluations should be complete by 3 p.m. May 5, and a notice of intent to award is estimated to arrive by 3 p.m. May 29.
