Eye on the States: With the bubble burst, what comes next for states?
What's in store for state government after the fall elections? How about new leadership, new priorities and new ways of viewing the world, for starters. In short, welcome to the era of the post-technology bubble in state government.</FONT>
Thin-client project
<FONT SIZE=2>	The California Department of Motor Vehicles is soliciting interested suppliers to provide thin-client terminals, cabling and installation services in field offices statewide to replace DMV terminals. The procurement is expected in November. The services will include acquisition of the equipment, removing existing terminals and cabling, installing new thin-client terminals, switches and cabling, and ensuring the field office is returned to full operation on the next business day.</FONT>
Contract expansion
<FONT SIZE=2>	The Pennsylvania Office of Information Technology is re-bidding its contract for microcomputer and local area network software. The RFP should be released by the end of the year. The state is redesigning the contract to include support, upgrade and maintenance services.</FONT>
Data warehouse upgrade
<FONT SIZE=2>	The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will release a request for proposals to obtain hardware and software support for its client services data warehouse. The RFP is expected by the end of the year. The current system is nearing maximum capacity and supports 1,200 users throughout the state via the Internet. The current data server is a single domain of eight CPUs of a Sun E10000 with 8 gigabytes of memory and seven input and output channels. The operating system is Solaris version 2.6 using Veritas Volume Manager for disk administration.</FONT>
IT services contract
<FONT SIZE=2>	The New Jersey Purchase Bureau is planning an invitation for bid in order to re-bid its statewide contract for information technology professional services. The procurement is expected by the end of the year. The contract will cover services such as database management, production, Web services, network infrastructure and telecommunications, systems integration, application development and systems consulting.</FONT>
Unfunded mandate?
<FONT SIZE=2>	Despite the passage of a sweeping election reform bill last month, many states are waiting to see if Congress also approves the required funding before they move ahead with plans to modernize voting procedures and systems. </FONT>
Across the Digital Nation: E-voting just part of solution to election-day woes
With the midterm elections around the corner, state and local governments are preparing to facilitate voting. Over the past year, many major steps have taken shape: Voters have been registered, ballots have been printed, personnel have been allocated to precincts, etc. Given the election debacle of 2000, a number of state and local governments have turned to new technology solutions to help eliminate the problems of pregnant chads, lost ballots and vote counts that are off.</FONT>
HIPAA software
<FONT SIZE=2>The Medicaid programs of Arizona and Hawaii are combining efforts on an assessment and remediation planning project to meet requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The states must comply with HIPAA by October 2003. A crucial component of compliance is translator software for HIPAA transactions. The states also need consulting services, including installation and configuration of translator software, providing documentation and training state employees. The RFP is expected by the end of the year. More than one contract is expected to be awarded. </FONT>
Airport consulting
<FONT SIZE=2>The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority wants to hire a security consultant. The authority, which owns Dulles International Airport and Washington Reagan National Airport, has not said what consulting services it needs. A RFP and a pre-proposal conference are expected in November. Questions from bidders will be due in December. Proposals also are likely due by the end of December. The value of the work is estimated between $250,000 and $500,000.</FONT>
Statewide telecom services
<FONT SIZE=2>The New Jersey Treasury Department is developing a telecommunications data services contract for use by all state agencies. The current contract is held by AT&T Corp., Basking Ridge, N.J., and Verizon Communications Inc., New York, and will expire in June 2003. An RFP is expected in the first quarter of 2003.</FONT>
Records management system
<FONT SIZE=2>The Seattle Police Department wants a new records management system. Comments to a request for qualifications are due Oct. 22. A request for proposals is expected in January 2003. The system should include criminal history and incidents, arrest and bookings, crime analysis, traffic citations and accidents and case management. There is no estimate on the value or term of the contract.</FONT>
Kentucky stays SAS course
<FONT SIZE=2>Kentucky state officials are sticking with an innovative contracting approach, despite apparent difficulties getting widespread use of the program since it was established three years ago.</FONT>
Eye on the States: Go back and do your homework--CRM marketing earns an F
Sometimes easy sales can lead<font SIZE="2"> to bad habits. In good times, companieslearn to take advantage of exceptionally strong momentum for a new technology or product.They move quickly, expand their sales forces and focus on getting orders in the door.Selling takes priority over marketing. </font>
Contracts: Opportunity Knocking
<font SIZE="4">IT services contracts</font>
Governors eye security initiative
<font SIZE="2"><p>An initiative by state governors to improve information sharing related to homeland
Across the Digital Nation: E-government evolves as more than citizen services
<FONT SIZE=2>Although e-government remains one of the most prominent technology initiatives within the state and local government marketplace, the nature of its projects continues to evolve. Government-to-citizen applications are still politically popular, but government-to-business and government-to-government projects are also emerging as key e-government areas.</FONT>
Bad news travels fast
<FONT SIZE=2>On May 16, South Carolina Chief Information Security Officer Jim MacDougall discovered that the state's servers were being scanned for vulnerabilities by a hacker in Beijing. After informing Matt DeZee, the state chief information officer, MacDougall blocked out a range of Internet protocol addresses, including the ones scanning the system.</FONT>
Opportunity knocking: Contracts
<FONT SIZE=2>The New Jersey Treasury Department wants to build a lottery communications network for the New Jersey Lottery Division. The network will help provide point-of-sale materials as well as advice on marketing techniques, recommend businesses for licensure as retailers and other duties directed by the Lottery Commission. A request for proposals is expected in October.</FONT>
Driver's license bills: Reduce speed ahead
<FONT SIZE=2>Both houses of Congress are working on legislation that would tighten security loopholes in the way states issue driver's licenses, but the bills may have a hard time passing this year because of concerns about privacy.</FONT>
Eye on the States
Disappointment. That describes what most of the information technology industry is feeling regarding state and local homeland security spending. Companies are discouraged with the amount of money spent on homeland security, the lack of opportunities in their sales pipelines and the relatively small size of the projects that have been launched.
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