The agency’s largest request is $24.9 million to “procure, design, configure and install the information technology footprint supporting the new State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) facility.”
According to the LBR, $23.5 million of this funding would be used to acquire technology for the center, including monitors, virtual machine technology, rack-mount servers, cables, adapters, audio and visual equipment, and mission-critical devices.
The remaining $1.4 million would be used to procure contractual services for equipment installation and management services.
The other IT-related requests are:
- $8.2 million for “professional services specific to project management, planning, discovery, design, development, change management, testing and validation for the Division of Emergency Management Enterprise Solution (DEMES) technology platform”
- $8.2 million to implement a federal aid tracking system to provide standardization and transparency of federal financial assistance within the state
- $3.6 million to fund all recurring costs for baseline technology associated with maintaining the operational readiness of the SEOC
- $3.2 million “for annual licensing, maintenance support, continued improvements and training services for the continuation of the operational deployment of the division’s Statewide WebEOC Initiative.” WebEOC is the state’s core disaster response mission management system the state uses to connect with local partners during disasters.
- $926,764 to establish a cybersecurity subject matter expert for audit, investigative and incident response services for the chief inspector general and state agency inspector general offices
- $861,330 for licensing, maintenance support and training for the Crisis Track Initiative
- $725,000 for Florida Planning, Accounting and Ledger Management (PALM) readiness
- $325,000 for the purchase of an identity and access management solution
- $250,000 for IT staff augmentation
