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ICYMI: FAQs About Agile Development Pre-Qualified Vendor Pool

The California Department of Technology held a webinar this week that offered an overview of the state's Agile Development Pre-Qualified Vendor Pool refresh.

The California Department of Technology held a webinar this week that offered an overview of the state's Agile Development Pre-Qualified Vendor Pool refresh.

The overview, led by moderator Deborah Chu on Tuesday, offered interested parties a chance to ask questions. The question period will end at 5 p.m. Tuesday; here are some questions that were answered live, most of which were answered by the CDT's Adrian Farley.

  • When is the RFI release date?
"It will be sometime after the 2nd of January," Farley said.

  • Do the current 24 vendors have to respond to the RFI to remain on the list? Will existing vendors be grandfathered in?
"No, they do not need to resubmit anything to remain on the list," Farley said. Vendors that have participated in the last 12 months will stay on the list.

  • Can a vendor add classifications at any time?
No, only during a refresh process.

  • If CMAS is current, does it need to be refreshed?
"If your CMAS is current, it has to include all of the labor categories that you are going to be bidding, and you still need to participate in the process of submitting the deliverables that are going to be required under the RFI," Farley said. This means current vendors have to align the new classification requirements for Full Stack Developer in this cycle.

  • How many RFOs have been issued?
About two per month, but an increase is expected during 2018.

  • Does open source/free software have to be modern?
Yes.

  • What is anticipated in the coming year?
"In the coming year, there will be a number of projects that cover basically the whole breadth of what state government is about," Farley said. "There will be a broad span of projects in the coming year." 

  • Do ADVQ vendors need to submit a mapping for the new category?
Yes, "that will coincide with the finalization of this project," Farley said.

"The going forward approach, it's going to be product design and research in one group and development and DevOps in the second. So we are going to require things like product roadmap, high-fidelity prototypes, research plans and profiles, user journeys in the product design and research. We'll be providing to the development and DevOps team a backlog of activities and tasks that they will have to build out," Farley said.

The webinar can be seen here, and answers will be made available after the question close date.  The pool's GitHub can be seen here. It provides documents and lessons learned from previous refreshes and will be updated with details about this cycle. Another refresh is expected in Q4 of 2018.

Kayla Nick-Kearney was a staff writer for Techwire from March 2017 through January 2019.