Title
Receive Quarterly Report from ERP Upgrade Capital Project.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Budget Committee:
Receive Quarterly Report from ERP Upgrade Capital Project.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Systems Division Chief
In May the Office of the Auditor/Controller hired a Systems Division Chief, Corinna Martinez. She is extremely qualified, with extensive government experience, mostly in the State of California. Although her primary focus is to manage and maintain the current ERP Production System, her management, technical and organizational skills have already made significant positive input to the upgrade project as well.
New Project Management Team
As required by the Board of Supervisors, an RFP for Project Management Services was let and executed. As a result, a new project management team has been contracted. The new team is from Plante & Moran, PPLC (PlanteMoran), a national CPA firm.
Between the two responding bidders, although theirs was not the lowest cost bid, PlanteMoran was deemed by the assessment team to be the most qualified respondent due to extensive experience in government and in ERP project management solutions, specifically with CGI, our ERP vendor.
CenturyLink Implementation
Due to the required change in the Project Management team, the completion of the CenturyLink implementation was postponed. CenturyLink provides the hardware infrastructure for the project. The expectation was that this critical phase would be completed at the beginning of July. The timing for completion was critical, in that CGI had staged their resources to arrive July 18, 2016 with the expectation the hardware platform would be completed and available. The timing of the change in Project Management introduced risk in that completion of the technical specs and infrastructure preparation was halted in mid-process. Additionally, the county required consulting services to guide CenturyLink on troubleshooting and enabling correct ports f...
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