Application Development / Database Development/Project Management

a. Legacy /New Development The Contractor should provide programming/analyst type personnel with a wide range of knowledge and experience in, but not limited to, the following skills and languages:

• to perform services to ensure that IT systems are designed to capitalize on agency architectures and State IT standards,
• to provide systems that are interoperable and interface with other systems and networks,
• to design systems that are reliable and easily maintainable,
• to ensure that systems make the most of agency-wide and state-wide resources,
• to design web-enabled applications,
• to evaluate and complete a conversion from one software application to a new software application, and
• to provide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.

COBOL, CICS, NATURAL, C++, JAVA, VISUAL BASIC, POWER BUILDER, FORTRAN, SAS, GIS.

b. Database Development The Contractor should provide personnel that possess a wide range of knowledge and experience in, but not limited to, the following databases and skills:

DB2, ORACLE, ADABAS, SQL SERVER, ACCESS, INFORMIX, SYBASE, VSAM,NOTES/DOMINO, FOCUS.

• Reviews, evaluates, and recommends changes to the database environment based on analysis of the monitoring effort.
• Oversees the physical database design including physical file characteristics, backup and recovery requirements, security requirements and physical space requirements dictated by the database design.
• Recommends additional software based on the analysis of available software and DBMS requirements.
• Supervises the installation and testing of database management systems (DBMS) software.
• Provides the audit ability of the database to insure data integrity, detection of missing data, late transaction reporting and untimely error correction.
• Evaluates and completes a conversion from one database to another database.
  

c. Project Planning and Project Management The Contractor should provide personnel with expertise in the entire Project Planning/ Management Life Cycle. The Contractor will be expected to provide the best of breed product solutions combined with quality professional services and to ensure the effective application of these tools in a timely manner, so as to plan, track, monitor and allow the completion of a project more rapidly. Also, the Contractor will be expected to produce status reports in order for the state agency to monitor the project.