Officials say that in the last month, the California Department of Technology and the Department of General Services have partnered with Grant Thornton to develop a taxonomy of available acquisition methods.
The goal is to put them all in a catalog and remove redundancies and look at the gaps.
Ricardo Martinez, acting director of the Procurement Division at the Department of General Services, said Monday that it's well-known that there are too many vehicles today. There are 42 acquisition methods alone in the state's financial information system, he said.
Here's a slide presented Monday at a California Department of Technology customer forum showing a slice of what the conceptual hierarchy looks like.
Martinez said the procurement modernization effort is a "game-changer."
Along with the development of a contract catalog, Martinez said last month DGS started a new accreditation process for purchasing authority granted to state agencies and departments. In the new process, departments will fall under four tiers based on acquisition complexity.
A new learning management system also will allow the state workforce to take online procurement training courses on demand, Martinez said.
