• California Office of Systems Integration Releases Pre-Solicitation RFP for CalHEERS System Development, Maintenance and Operations

    April 3rd, 2018 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , ,
    California Office of Systems Integration Releases Pre-Solicitation RFP for CalHEERS System Development, Maintenance and Operations

    On March 29, 2018, California’s Office of Systems Integration (OSI), on behalf of the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and Covered California, released (on Cal eProcure) a Pre-Solicitation Request for Proposal (RFP) #32323 for System Development, Maintenance and Operations (SDMO) services for the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment and Retention System (CalHEERS). […]

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    State Auditor again issues warning on $910 million FI$CAL project

    January 5th, 2017 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , ,
    State Auditor again issues warning on $910 million FI$CAL project

    The California State Auditor today in her legislatively mandated annual FI$CAL review reported that the project “continues to face scheduling challenges, despite having significantly extended its schedule and increased its budget in its sixth Special Project Report (SPR) less than a year ago… That sixth […]

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    BreEZe: What’s the Real Reason Failing IT Projects Are Allowed to Continue?

    March 24th, 2015 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
    BreEZe: What’s the Real Reason Failing IT Projects Are Allowed to Continue?

    The State Auditor came out last week with a scathing new report which according to this Sacbee headline, “Blasts State Tech System”, and follows the Auditor’s report from last month on the California Department of Consumer Affairs’ BreEZe System, both of which take the state’s Department of […]

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    It’s No Breeze. Consumer Affairs BreEZe Project Status Report Troubling

    January 29th, 2015 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , ,
    It’s No Breeze. Consumer Affairs BreEZe Project Status Report Troubling

    The California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) which certifies or licenses almost 2.5 million practitioners in over 240 occupations, is facing renewed scrutiny over its management and implementation of the new, mission critical BreEZe Online Services Project. According to the Project’s latest status report on […]

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    O-DAY +9 – Covered California Online Enrollment System Still not Working…

    October 10th, 2013 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , ,
    O-DAY +9 – Covered California Online Enrollment System Still not Working…

    It’s now Obamacare O-Day +9, and we are still unable to enroll. By the way, that’s the key word here – “enroll”. I see the euphemisms floating out of Peter Lee’s shop…  “completed applications”, “partially completed applications”, “signed-up”. And then this, “Actual enrollment figures will […]

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    STATE PAYROLL SYSTEM: TAKE IT AWAY FROM CONTROLLER’S OFFICE: My article is up today in the San Diego Union Tribune

    March 14th, 2013 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
    STATE PAYROLL SYSTEM: TAKE IT AWAY FROM CONTROLLER’S OFFICE: My article is up today in the San Diego Union Tribune

    My primary points; After three separate controllers’ efforts, the last two having spent more than a decade in procurement and implementation efforts outlined above, the sine qua non ingredient for a new, successful project is the removal of responsibility for payroll and the new payroll […]

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    TechLeader.TV with Guest Deborah Rose, Director, Office of Systems Intergration, California HHS Agency, November 15, 2012, 11:30 AM PT

    November 6th, 2012 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
    TechLeader.TV with Guest Deborah Rose, Director, Office of Systems Intergration, California HHS Agency, November 15, 2012, 11:30 AM PT

    Next Program with Deborah Rose Director, Office of Systems Integration California Health & Human Services Agency Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn with Special Guest Deborah Rose Director, OSI Deborah (Debbie) Rose was appointed to the position of Director for the Office of Systems […]

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    Budget Task Force Union Representatives Double List of IT and Other Service Contracts for Cancellation: Now at $2 Billion

    August 23rd, 2012 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
    Budget Task Force Union Representatives Double List of IT and Other Service Contracts for Cancellation: Now at $2 Billion

    As Techwire.Net reported last week: A task force created by a budget-related agreement with SEIU Local 1000 to review IT vendor and other private-sector contracts with state agencies has met and started the process to determine which potentially should be cancelled or renegotiated… It’s a […]

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    TechLeader.TV with Gregory Franklin, Assistant Secretary for Health Information Technology, California Technology Agency

    June 5th, 2012 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
    TechLeader.TV with Gregory Franklin, Assistant Secretary for Health Information Technology, California Technology Agency

    Next Program: A Live Webcast Hosted by John Thomas Flynn June 21, 2012 11:30 AM PT with Special Guest Gregory Franklin Assistant Secretary for Health Information Technology California Technology Agency TechLeader.TV will discuss with Greg: An overview of Health IT landscape – federal, state & […]

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    IBM’s awarded contract for 21st Century project deployment and training; bittersweet after disqualification of their FI$CAL Bid

    March 16th, 2012 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
    IBM’s awarded contract for 21st Century project deployment and training; bittersweet after disqualification of their FI$CAL Bid

    Techwire reports on IBM’s award of a $12 million contract for 21st Century Payroll Project deployment and training for the new SAP based system. Not sure if it will make up for IBM’s failure to even have their FI$CAL final bid opened. Apparently, just CGI […]

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