Consulting and Technical Services+ (CATS+) Functional Areas

Award Date: 4/3/2013     

Contract Term: 4/22/2013 - 4/21/2028 *

BPO Number: 060B2490023​

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* Every three years, DoIT will allow new vendors to submit offers for inclusion on the Master Contract and will allow existing contractors to add Functional Areas.

Secondary co​​mpetition documents, such as a TORFP or RFR, will be issued to Master Contractors as a single functional area only. Scope of a TORFP may cross over into more than one functional area. However, the State will make a determination of the most appropriate functional area, prior to release of the TORFP/RFR.

Functional Area 1 - Enterprise Service Provider (ESP) Services to ensure that information systems are designed to capitalize on agency architectures and State IT standards, provide interoperability with other systems and networks, be reliable and maintainable, and make the most cost-effective use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology and agency-wide and government-wide resources.

Functional Area 2 - Web and Internet Systems A broad range of business solutions and support using the capabilities of the web and Internet; design, develop, test, implement and maintain web sites, portals, web applications and web services and the associated hardware, software, network and security components that comprise these solutions.

Functional Area 3 - Electronic Document Management Service to establish or maintain electronic document imaging, document management, document workflow, and associated technologies.

Functional Area 4 - Geographical Information Systems Service to integrate, store, edit, analyze and display geographically-referenced information in a client/server or web-based environment

Functional Area 5 - Software Engineering Service to provide full life cycle of a software system development. Process definition; requirements management (project planning, quality assurance, project tracking and oversight, organizational process focus); software metrics; software process assessments; software capability evaluations; software project management; software certification; software validation and verification; open systems; software architecture; software reengineering; software reuse; component-based software; software security; supervising software configuration management; and CASE tools.

Functional Area 6 - Systems/Facilities Management and Maintenance Systems/Facilities Management and Maintenance services include: Data Center Technical Support/Operations, and Help Desk. At the State’s discretion, these services may be required to be provided externally to the requesting agency.

Functional Area 7 - Information System Security​ The security of information and computing resources at all organizational levels; including software/application and data security support, as well as disaster recovery planning and risk assessment.

Functional Area 8 - Application Service Provider Combination of software, hardware and networking technologies to offer hosted, service-based applications.

Functional Area ​9 - IT and Telecommunications Financial and Auditing Consulting Services​ The IT and Telecommunications Financial and Auditing Consulting include the following types of services: cost and financial analyses, information systems auditing and quality assurance and telecommunications systems management.

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Functional Area 10 - IT Management Consulting Services The IT Management Consulting Services include any of the following types of services: IT enterprise architecture, systems review for architectural consistency, strategic planning assistance, project management services, Master Contractor assessments and risk assessment analysis.​

Functional Area 11 - Business Process Consulting Services Streamlining business processes and the development, implementation and support of process improvements to eliminate redundancy, increase productivity, and reduce cost.