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The Child Welfare System — New System (CWS-NS), one of California’s largest IT modernization efforts, will be divided into multiple bid opportunities with the intent of making the project less risky and more agile, officials announced in November.
The first two RFPs were released this month, and the Department of Social Services and Office of Systems Integration expect the project’s first deliverable will be completed during the 2016-17 fiscal year.
“Instead of the monolithic approach that was envisioned that we were getting ready to release, we’re going to a modular approach. We’re going to break up the RFP into a series of RFPs that will tackle each of the different modules — we haven’t settled on the exact number of those and the sequencing of them. We think this approach is going to be less risky and that it’s going to be quicker to deliverables,” said Michael Wilkening, undersecretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency.
