Our TLTV show focusing on State of California procurement had many highlights: Regardless of FI$CAL Rollout problems, State Procurement still scheduled to switchover from Bid Sync on July 1, 2015. Will state be ready? Are vendors prepared? CalNet3 remaining categories for wireless and satellite voice […]
Highlights:TechLeader.TV on Procurement – Bid Sync going away; Final Calnet3 Categories RFP/IFB’s coming, may disappoint some; Vendor performance scorecard coming in 2015 & new incentive-based contracting under consideration; STAR makes FSR’s go away – in 2015?? Statewide Technology Procurement Division’s (STPD) big five procurements for 2015 & more…
February 3rd, 2015 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: Brown Administration, CES Mail, CWS, California IT procurement, California Technology Agency, EBT3, Jim Butler, Marnell Voss, State Technology Approval Reform (STAR), TechLeader.TV, WIC
Highlights:TechLeader.TV on Procurement – Bid Sync going away; Final Calnet3 Categories RFP/IFB’s coming, may disappoint some; Vendor performance scorecard coming in 2015 & new incentive-based contracting under consideration; STAR makes FSR’s go away – in 2015?? Statewide Technology Procurement Division’s (STPD) big five procurements for 2015 & more…
Highlights from Techleader.TV Appearance by State CIO Carlos Ramos
October 10th, 2014 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: CA.mail, CES Mail, CalCloud, CalCloud exemption policy, CalTech, California Department of Technology, Calnet3, Carlos Ramos, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV
Highlights from Techleader.TV Appearance by State CIO Carlos Ramos
Here are some of the highlights from CIO Ramos’s interview last week watched LIVE online by over 1,000 viewers: Outlines CalCloud’s Exemption Policy; Says State Should Get Out of eMail Business, Sounding Death Knell for State Hosted CA.Mail??; Explains New Consulting and Oversight Organizations within […]
TechLeader.TV with Davood Ghods, Chief of the Office of Technology Services (OTech); OCT 30, 2014 at 11:30 AM PT
October 1st, 2014 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: AB2408, CES Mail, CalCloud, California Technology Agency, California eMail, Calnet3, Davood Ghods, John Thomas Flynn, OTech, TechLeader.TV, state computer system, state computer systems
TechLeader.TV with Davood Ghods, Chief of the Office of Technology Services (OTech); OCT 30, 2014 at 11:30 AM PT
Next Program with Davood Ghods Chief Office of Technology Services (OTech) Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn with Special Guest Davood Ghods Chief, OTech Davood oversees approximately 800 FTE’s within the OTech divisions of Operations, Engineering, Customer Delivery, Statewide Telecommunications and Network, Security Management, […]
OTech Chief Ghods Reports on CalNet3, CalCloud, eMail, New MSA for Cloud Services, Drones & more
September 11th, 2014 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: CA.mail, CES Mail, Calnet3, Cloud migration RFP, John Thomas Flynn, OTech, TechLeader.TV, email RFP
OTech Chief Ghods Reports on CalNet3, CalCloud, eMail, New MSA for Cloud Services, Drones & more
Techwire’s Industry Briefing yesterday at the Sacramento Sheraton with OTech Chief Davood Ghods provided plenty of solid information to the 50 plus attendees. In addition to a comprehensive description of OTech’s organization, infrastructure and environment, Davood also highlighted several upcoming initiatives of significant interest to […]
SNAP: Former Fed CIO Labels Big IT Vendors as Cartel-like Obstructionists
September 2nd, 2011 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: Alice Lipowicz, CES Mail, California Technology Agency, California eMail, Cloud Computing, Department of Defense, Federal CIO, John Thomas Flynn, Northrop Grumman, TechLeader.TV, Vivek Kundra, northrop, office of Technology Services
SNAP: Former Fed CIO Labels Big IT Vendors as Cartel-like Obstructionists
Former federal CIO Vivek Kundra didn’t pull any punches this week in his article in the New York Times taking large IT vendors to task for their “cartel” like obstruction to real cost savings and efficiencies in the fed’s $80 billion annual investment in technology: […]