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Agency to Host Vendors Meeting for CARS Project

The California Automated Lobbyist and Campaign Contribution and Expenditure Search System (CAL-ACCESS) has, since its inception in the late 1990s, used a system driven by forms. The Cal-ACCESS Replacement System (CARS) project is intended to replace the forms with a data-driven system.

The California Secretary of State’s Office will host an online meeting Thursday with vendors and service providers interested in the Cal-ACCESS Replacement System (CARS) project, a new public window into campaign disclosure and lobbying financial activity by state candidates, donors, lobbyists, lobbyist employers and others.

The California Automated Lobbyist and Campaign Contribution and Expenditure Search System (CAL-ACCESS) has, since its inception in the late 1990s, used a system driven by forms for significant parts of its business. The CARS project is intended to replace the forms with a data-driven system.

In an open invitation to vendors, the Secretary of State’s Office announced that a free Webex-only meeting will run from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Thursday. More details and links are available here.

“Please join us for the upcoming CARS Software Vendor and Service Provider Meeting,” the announcement says. “The meeting will include an update on progress made since the last meeting and a demo.”

The Secretary of State’s Office, which is coordinating the CARS process, has been holding quarterly meetings for vendors and others. Its last meeting was in July.

The agency announced earlier this year that it had chosen the Salesforce solution platform, “with system analysis and lessons learned during the past year,” and it added that systems integrators have begun design and development based on that. The CARS team anticipates implementation in February.

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.