In an Request for Offer released Oct. 14, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced its need to contract with “a qualified CMAS vendor” for an IT infrastructure modernization specialist. Among the takeaways:
• The department needs the services of a specialist to do “a series of assessments of its IT infrastructure and services,” to help in planning, engineering or re-engineering of existing technologies “and to assist with planning and engineering and/or re-engineering of existing infrastructure technologies” that have been implemented and adopted “as core” to its mission. The individual will assess and implement “various IT infrastructure products and services to deliver a secure, modern, and stable IT infrastructure,” CDFW said in the RFO, and will “assist and often lead projects with designing, implementing, securing, and enhancing” existing and new IT initiatives.
• These initiatives include telework and mobile workforce modernization, assessing and enhancing existing strategies and launching new technologies to expand CDFW’s “evolving telework and mobile workforce”; enhanced cybersecurity planning and implementation, “fortifying” the department’s security and intrusion detection solutions; assisting the IT infrastructure enhancement through product implementation, network enhancements, cloud service implementations and virtual computing solutions; and technology recovery planning and implementation, to stand up “modern processes and procedures” relative to the “integrity and preservation” of systems, solutions and data sources for mission critical data and services.
• The successful candidate will also optimize existing business-process solutions and stand up “critical network and infrastructure improvements”; design, implement and train IT staff on IT business improvement initiatives; and assist in other projects “related to improvements or updates to the department’s application architectures, infrastructures, and cloud solutions.”
• Minimum qualifications include at least three years’ experience providing service and support to a “large, diverse enterprise,”; working with and implementing a variety of IT solutions and services around teleworking and remote mobile workforce support; and working with and implementing “monitoring and cybersecurity solutions” with good knowledge of state and federal standards, all within the last five years. Desired experience includes “advanced knowledge and experience” working with Azure Site Recovery and other cloud recovery services; and of “various aspects” of Microsoft Office 365 and Azure cloud.
• The RFO is for a two-year position with an estimated term of Jan. 1-Dec. 30, 2022; the contract is not to exceed $499,999.99 including an optional six-month extension, likely on the part of the state. Responses are due by 3 p.m. on Nov. 17; their evaluation will be done by Nov. 23. Interviews are estimated to be completed by Dec. 4.
