The county of Los Angeles, which is home to nearly 10 million people — roughly one-quarter of California’s population — is in pre-request for proposal stages on two IT projects that originate from two significant entities within the enterprise. Among the takeaways:
- In a request for information (RFI) released Dec. 2, the county’s Chief Executive Office seeks an “Enterprise Office Productivity and Collaboration Suite.” More specifically, the office wants to hear from vendors that can deliver a software-as-a-service-based (SaaS) solution that includes office productivity apps for “document processing, presentation, personal database and notebook, spreadsheets, and cloud file storage”; secure email and calendars; business apps for “schedule and task planning, electronic forms, bookings and online reservations”; and collaboration apps for online meetings, video calls and sharing files.
- The county has more than 100,000 subscribers to Microsoft Office 365 E3 who use its office productivity apps across desktop, online and mobile; its business apps; its collaboration tools; its endpoint and app management; and its identity and access management/security features including single sign-on, advanced threat analytics and data loss prevention. More granularly, these areas include email, email archiving and calendars; document processing, presentation and spreadsheets; electronic forms; team file sharing; webinars; and mobile app management.
- Respondents should include a one-page letter of introduction identifying the company and whether it is “OEM, reseller and/or systems integrator”; a product description that includes product SKU or part number, and “published per user subscription cost”; and a description of the implementation services that includes email migration, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint content, deployment and integration with the County Azure Directory for “user credentials and authentication, user training and change management.” Areas of needed products or services include desktop and online client office productivity suites; desktop and online collaboration apps; business applications, endpoint management; governance and data management; and identity and access management. Responses are due by 12 p.m. Jan. 16.
- The county’s Department of Public Works is alerting companies to a procurement estimated to be released in February: “On-Call Operations Telemetry System Maintenance Services for Seawater Barriers, Spreading Grounds and Rubber Dams.” The likely value for the project, notice of which was released Nov. 24, is $800,000. Here, officials seek “sundry services” throughout the county that are described as “highly specialized“ to augment its own workforce and offer help with “proving preventative maintenance for our facilities.”
