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Vendors: Friday is Deadline for Questions

Vendors who are interested, or even curious, about becoming part of the state’s Pre-Qualified Vendor Pool for Agile Development/Digital Services have until 2 p.m. Friday to ask questions about qualifying through the California Department of Technology.

Vendors who are interested, or even curious, about becoming part of the state’s Pre-Qualified Vendor Pool for Agile Development/Digital Services have until 2 p.m. Friday to ask questions about qualifying.

The California Department of Technology is planning to expand from 24 to 35 the number of pre-qualified vendors that can provide the California Health and Human Services Agency and other approved state agencies with “user-centric design and agile software development services,” according to the notice on the CDT website.

The CDT notes, “Interested vendors are not required to submit feedback and/or questions with regard to this pre-release in order to participate in the anticipated RFI that may follow.”

In addition to expanding the number of pre-qualified vendors, the state is also refreshing its current list.

 CDT offered a webinar last month that addressed many questions that vendors may have about eligibility. Here’s a recap of some questions:

When is the RFI release date? “It will be sometime after the 2nd of January,” said Adrian Farley, digital product and policy strategist for the CDT.

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 the CMAS (California Multiple Award Schedules) 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.”

All feedback and/or questions must be submitted by 2 p.m. Friday via email to ADPQ@state.ca.gov.

 

 

Dennis Noone is Executive Editor of Industry Insider. He is a career journalist, having worked at small-town newspapers and major metropolitan dailies including USA Today in Washington, D.C.