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Florida DEP Issues RFI for Electronic Document Management System

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is seeking information on implementing an enterprise system to possibly replace Oculus, which it has been using since the previous millennium.

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The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a request for information (RFI) for qualified vendors to provide an electronic document management system.

According to the RFI, the department is interested in learning more about systems capable of supporting agencywide document management requirements.

Until recently, the department has been using Oculus, a commercial product developed and supported by ROH Incorporated, since 1998.

Approximately “400 concurrent users from a pool of 2,000 potential users interact directly with Oculus via direct insert or scanning to manage documents,” the RFI states.

Oculus is currently run on-premises at the Florida Digital Service State Data Center. The estimated current space used in the system is approximately 32 terabytes, with an expected storage growth of 1 terabyte per year.

As a result, the agency is looking to replace Oculus with a cloud-computing solution that minimizes the use of or does not rely on the State Data Center to meet agency needs.

Additional system requirements include:
  • Supporting a document’s entire life cycle from creation and capture, organization and management, workflow and approval, viewing and sharing, and retention and disposal 
  • Migrating data and documents into and out of the vendor electronic document management system (EDMS) into other EDMS systems based on the agency’s needs 
  • Offering users robust and intuitive search functionality, including search for matching text within documents, keywords and advanced search options that include Boolean search capabilities 
  • Providing the ability to augment attributions with keywords to assist in future searches 
  • Supporting a variety of program-specific document retention and disposal policies 

More information about RFI 2025007 can be found online, and all vendor responses are due at 5 p.m. on Aug. 26.
Katya Diaz is an Orlando-based e.Republic staff writer. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in global strategic communications from Florida International University.