The California Bureau of Automotive Repair plans to move the system that processes smog check inspection data into the state data center and release a new maintenance and operation bid opportunity for it in 2017.
The California Vehicle Inspection System (Cal-VIS) is currently maintained and operated by a contractor, SGS Testcom, at a third-party data center. State officials want to move the system into the state’s Tier III data center at the Office of Technology Services in part to comply with the Department of Technology’s IT policy and reduce the risk of exposure.
The current vendor, which has maintained Cal-VIS since 2005, also owns the system’s code and hardware. The state would like to obtain those assets from the vendor. The system’s software and hardware would remain mostly intact, but some modification could be considered because of emerging needs.
“The limitations of the current system and of some of its design features have become more apparent as program demands have increased,” the project’s feasibility study said. “The recent implementation of On-board Diagnostic (OBD) testing has created a need for additional Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities to support complex and resource intensive data analysis and reporting activities. The recent implementation of OBD only testing has dramatically increased the volume and complexity of the data collected by the system.”
Cal-VIS contains 33 million Smog Check test records, and other data; nearly 50,000 tests records are inputted per day, according to the state. The system interfaces with the DMV’s mainframe.
“The system contains vehicle license plate numbers and Vehicle Information Numbers in order to send the certificate of compliance for each vehicle to DMV for registration renewal purposes. There is no confidential information stored in the Vehicle Information Database (VID) relative to personal information about the registered vehicle owner,” the Bureau of Automotive Repair project team said.
The Bureau of Automotive Repair, under the Department of Consumer Affairs, implements the California Smog Check Program and licenses smog check stations.
The Cal-VIS project re-bid currently is budgeted at $4.4 million.
