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Changes Are Coming to This IT Contracting Process

This large county is preparing to change its IT contracting process.

Los Angeles County is preparing to change its IT contracting process.

The county is seeking a vendor to assess the current system and provide recommendations for what the new process should look like. The evaluation's statement of work should be released within the next month, according to Deputy Director of Shared Services Benny Chako.

"Some of it is looking at certain county rules that have been put in place and seeing if those are still applicable," Chako said at Thursday's Techwire Briefing. "Can we go back and negotiate some of these terms?"

The three kinds of IT contracts in L.A. County are IT master services agreement, enterprise services agreement for deliverables and telecommunications services agreement.

"In each one of those, there is a 27-step process and it weaves through different organizations and ISD [internal services department] and the idea is we're looking to see how efficient we can make that," Senior Deputy Director of IT Dave Wesolik said at Thursday's Techwire Briefing.

Vendors can expect a shorter contracting timeline, fewer approvals and refreshed terms and conditions.

The county is looking to go from "weeks and weeks to days and days," according to Wesolik.

One solution being examined is borrowing from other organizations' previously created contracts.

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