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Way Forward Commitment:

Currently, our Government uses a Vendor of Record model that is comprised of partner organizations which have been approved to manage the majority of Government IT contracts. Accordingly, this model limits availability of related Government IT work to other interested companies. The new model will allow more companies to bid on Government IT work, thereby increasing competition and choice of vendor. By 2017-18, our Government will implement a Managed Service Provider approach, which will expand opportunities for local vendors to conduct work on public sector IT initiatives.

What We’ve Accomplished:

• A three-year agreement with Flextrack Inc. was signed on November 4, 2016 to implement a new Managed Service Provider (MSP) model. This new model allows more vendors to bid on public sector Information Technology and Information Management initiatives.
• Since implementation, 82 vendors have registered to compete for Information Technology professional services opportunities.Prior to introducing the MSP model, only three consortia representing nine companies were able to bid on IT professional services opportunities.
• The number of new companies that have been successful in doing business with the OCIO is 39.