Technology Acquisitions

Procurement Strategy. Determine which vehicle is the right one to procure specific goods or services to help meet your policy and service objectives. Focus areas include:

• Build/buy/partner analysis.
• Distinctive competency assessment.
• Gaps and opportunities assessment.
• IT asset assessment.
• Product portfolio and roadmapping.
• Procurement option analysis.

Solution Assessment. Explore possibilities for your technology solution in the current state and in the future state. Focus areas include:

• IT standards and benchmarking.
• Level-of-effort analysis.
• Market landscape assessment.
• Solution architecture.

Solicitations. Tap into our knowledge of procurement requirements, policies, and applicable laws and regulations. Focus areas include:

• Constituent and stakeholder segmentation.
• Solicitation development.
• Solution requirements.
• Stakeholder engagement.

Proposal Evaluation. Assess proposals to determine the best value and the bidder’s ability to successfully perform the required services. Focus areas include:

• Evaluation plans.
• Evaluation tools.
• Evaluation training.
• Post-solicitation support.
• Pre-solicitation support.
• Scoring and non-scoring review.

Implementation Support. Monitor and assess vendor performance during the implementation process to ensure that client needs are satisfied. Focus areas include:

• Assessment of requirements completion.
• Assistance with user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Independent verification and validation (IV&V) of vendor deliverables.
• Project monitoring.
• Status reporting.