STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING PO Box 9020, Olympia WA 98507-9020
NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT K5200 Business & Technology Modernization
The State of Washington, Department of Licensing (DOL) intends to award a sole source contract to Fast Enterprises, LLC, (FAST), for the time period of May 1, 2015 to June 30, 2019, for an estimated potential value of $30 million. Any extension to the term of the contract will be at the sole discretion of DOL. The Business and Technology Modernization (BTM) project is a multi-phased effort that will modernize DOL’s licensing functions, including, vehicle, driver and revenue applications that are obsolete, difficult to modify and are in danger of failing. The state’s ability to respond to legislative mandates, adapt to future transportation funding models, modernize business processes, improve customer service and collect revenue collection is severely and adversely impacted. This project is the department’s highest priority, and is highly complex in nature, involves multiple phases to modernize all systems, including reorganizing and cleansing existing databases, resolving systemic data integrity issues, and reengineering system interfaces. An Investment Plan was submitted by DOL to the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and received OCIO approval for an enterprise level, fully configured and integrated Motor Vehicles/Drivers Licensing enterprise Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solution. Such an integrated and configurable COTS solution provides benefits and advantages that support DOL’s modernization feasibility study and project vision, while being optimally responsive to new legislation and Washington State OCIO policy imperatives. Based on extensive market research, DOL has determined that FAST is the only vendor who meets DOL’s primary requirement of having a proven track record of successfully implementing a fully configured and integrated Motor Vehicles/Drivers Licensing enterprise class COTS solution. More specifically, DOL has delineated and FAST has demonstrated the capability to deliver on the following minimum business requirements and critical success factors:
The system must be an integrated Vehicles Registration/Title and Drivers Licensing product successfully deployed and fully functional as the primary enterprise COTS solution supporting at least one individual state’s motor vehicle/licensing operations.
The system must have been in live operation for at least 12 months in the same jurisdiction, i.e. an operational, in-production, successfully performing, as validated by DOL through reference checking.
The two major modules of the system (i.e. (1) a complete Vehicles Registration/ Title with revenue functionality and, (2) a complete Drivers License functionality) must be capable of being implemented across a state motor vehicle administration enterprise in less than two years for each module. The vendor is able to demonstrate a clear performance record meeting this target for both functionalities.
The system in production must be compliant with Microsoft architecture, including the following components: – Windows Server 2008R2/2012, or newer – MS SQL 2012, or newer – MS System Center 2012 Stack, or newer
DOL’s extensive market research indicates that a few emerging vendors are in the process of developing integrated COTS solutions but have yet to successfully implement a fully configured, integrated Motor Vehicles/Drivers Licensing enterprise COTS solution per the criteria above. The market research also supports the finding that there are no other vendors currently able to meet the minimum requirements of this project. Offerors who believe they meet the above requirements may submit a capability statement detailing their ability and actual performance record in meeting the state’s minimum requirements within five (5) business days of this announcement. In the absence of other qualified sources, it is the state’s intent to make a sole source award of the contract. For further information contact: Andrew W. Kramer, JD Contract & Procurement Consultant Business & Technology Modernization Department of Licensing By E-mail at:
[email protected]
