Comprehensive Budget Software Platform

The vendor is required to provide comprehensive budget software platform and related services may include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
- Platform features and core modules
•    Browser based, mobile responsive interface 
•    Automated GFOA award aligned digital proposed and adopted budget book alongside a public budget explorer featuring filterable charts, maps and downloadable pdf and excel summaries 
•    Generation of proposed and adopted budget book 
•    Role based access controls to separate internal workflows from public views 
•    Operating budget: fund and department and program hierarchies mapped to city chart of accounts
•    Personnel budgeting: position level FTE tracking, classification costing, vacancy savings modeling and salary and benefit projections 
•    Revenue and expenditure projections 
•    Forecasting: the software should provide predictive analytics to assist in financial forecasting for current and long-term financial needs. 
•    Scenario analysis: ability to model different budget scenarios based on varying assumptions. 
•    Performance management: the software must facilitate tracking of performance metrics against budgeted values.
•    CIP management: lifecycle costing, funding source tracking, interactive schedule visualizations 
•    Optional benchmark comparisons with other cities 
•    Optional automated submission of award.
- Data integration and workflow
•    Realtime or scheduled transfer to and from central square. 
•    Two-way excel, word, and Visio integration for bulk data and narrative updates and pictures 
•    Centralized, auditable repository with version history, changelogs, and user action timestamps 
•    Preconfigured dashboards (fund level summaries, revenue vs. expenditure, CIP forecasts) 
•    Ad-hoc, drag and drop query builder with drill down to transaction detail 
•    Multiyear budget to actual and trend analyses with customizable date ranges 
•    Configurable approval routing (department→ finance director→ city manager) 
•    Draft versioning with side by side redlines and archival of superseded documents 
•    Automated reminders and milestone tracking notifications
•    Supports automated account synchronization from central square to budget software upon creation.

- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: September 22, 2025