How to Pre-qualify for State Contracts for Professional Services Presented by: Wendy Walker Contracts Specialist Master Contracts and Consulting Group Department of Enterprise Services May 22, 2014
ITPS Program Strategy Current categories are going away. – Solicitation status for current categories is permanently closed. – As master contracts for new categories go live, current contracts will terminate. – There will be some overlap in category availability as existing prequalified vendor pools in WEBS are replaced by new categories of prequalified vendor pools.
The ITPS program is a two-tiered competitive solicitation program for different categories of IT services. Once prequalified in a category, a vendor becomes eligible to submit proposals for separately solicited state agency project work for THAT CATEGORY ONLY. Program Overview
Washington Electronic Business Service – Businesses register in WEBS and identify commodities they are interested in. – Opportunities are posted to WEBS. – WEBS automatically notifies you of the opportunities by via the address you registered. – You compete against other qualified professionals for work. WEBS
First-Tier Prequalification – Coordinated by DES. Agree to State of Washington terms & conditions. Competency for the category applying. – Experience – Licenses – Certificates – Admission to the prequalified vendor pool First Tier
Project Work – Separately coordinated by state agency purchasers Solicitations including: – Statements of work – Evaluation criteria – Award – Administration Second Tier
Phase One - Service Strategy – IT Funding & Financial Analysis – IT Business Strategy – Continuity of Operations & Disaster Recovery Three Phases of Implementation April 2014
Phase Two – Project Management – QA and IV & V – Project Management – Testing – Applications Development Client Server Database Three Phases of Implementation Mid 2014
– Security Client/Server Database GIS Infrastructure Mainframe Mobile Web – Systems Administration Client/Server Database GIS Infrastructure Mainframe Mobile Web Three Phases of Implementation Phase Three – Services Delivery – Systems Analysis Client/Server Database GIS Infrastructure Mainframe Mobile Web – Technical Solutions Architecture Client/Server Database GIS Infrastructure Mainframe Mobile Web Late 2014 – Applications Development GIS Infrastructure Mainframe Mobile Web
Questions? Thank you Thank you for attending! Scott Geist Wendy Walker