IT Road Show

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Government ProcurementConnectionsIT Forum
METRO ITOpportunities March 2007
Reginald Brown, IT Manager
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Technologies in Place
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Hardware and Software Standards
Desktops Laptops
Servers and Storage
Application Suite
Telephony
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Certifications and Standards

• Certifications required of IT staff
• PMP
• MCSE
• CCNP minimally
• Nortel PBX Certification
• Manufacturer Certification VoIP, SONET,
  Sun/Solaris/HP, SAN/NAS
• Data Cabling
• CAT 5
• Fiber Optic
• Standards
• Servers
• Intel-based HP DL380, ML570 or ML 750, HP 9000
• Sun V880 Series
• Networking Equipment
• Cisco Data VoIP
• Nortel Voice
• SAN/NAS EMC

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Hardware and Software Procurement Process

• Standard Bid Process
• Requirements are gathered and written as an RFP
• METRO Procurement staff guide the process of
  notifying businesses of the RFP
• A committee composed of business leaders from all
  affected METRO departments, IT, and Procurement
  reviews the vendor submittals
• The most qualified, low-cost, value-based bidder
  is selected
• METROs Board of Directors review and approve
• Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR)
• How it works register for QISV (must be
  certified and have an active website) must be
  registered with DIR
• METRO obtains PCs, Servers, Software consulting
  from the DIR
• DIR website www.dir.state.tx.us

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Opportunitiesto Partner with METRO IT
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Single ERP Project

• METRO currently operates (2) ERP systemsOracle
  EBS 11i and SAP 4.6b
• Outdated software and hardware are at risk of
  breaking
• Cost prohibitive to maintain (2) enterprise
  systems and the interfaces between them
• Currently evaluating the opportunity to
  consolidate on one platform

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Single ERP ProjectScope of Effort
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Single ERP ProjectConsolidated System View
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Single ERP ProjectOpportunities for Small
Business Participation

• Phase 1 Business Case Study (Complete)
• Phase 2 Business Requirements Definition and
  RFP for ERP Solution
• Phase 3 Implementation Phase (partner with
  Prime vendor)

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Projected Project Schedule

• RFP for Requirements Definition April 2007
• Receive Vendor Responses May 2007
• Award Contract - May 2007
• Perform Phase 2 June thru August 2007
• Extend RFP for Phase 3 Sept 2007
• Select a solution and Prime vendor Dec 2007

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Thank You