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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Office of Enterprise Resource Planning
Vendor: Grant Thornton LLP, Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Consulting
Contract Value: $2,930,000.00
Contract period: 7/1/2015 - 2/28/2018
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2015 $305,000.00, FY 2016 $1,460,000.00, FY 2017 $1,020,000.00, FY 2018 $145,000.00
Accounts: 1502909490/266
Contract Number(s): 1590-14377
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Bureau of Technology concurs.
Summary: Cook County is in the process of implementing the Oracle EBS Suite to support operations throughout the County. This is a very large project with significant risk. To manage risk and help achieve the highest degree of success possible, the County intends to engage an Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) provider for oversight of all elements of the Oracle EBS implementation including:
· Development and execution of a comprehensive Phase Gate Review process for each of the implementation phases
· Active review of the implementation process and resulting deliverables created by the Systems Integrator (SI)
· Proactive review and predictive oversight to identify and recommend solutions to risks and issues before they become problems such as cost or schedule overruns
· Close integration with the County project team and the SI throughout the project
· Strong IV&V methodology tempered by experience with management of complex development and roll-out projects to provide a stable basis for review
This is a Comparable Government Procurement pursuant to Section 34-140 of the Cook County Procurement Code. Grant Thornton, LLP was previously awarded a contract by the Illinois Tollway through a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process. ERP wishes to leverage this procurement effort.end