Project Management Resources Services

The vendor is required to provide project management (PM) resource(s) must have substantial project management experience leading several medium and high complexity projects that require completion of all phases of department planning, procurement, and approval process.
- Project management and procurement branch (PMPB) are requesting to establish a pool of resources that can be brought on and leveraged for temporary efforts via work authorizations (was).  
- Project manager (PM) consultant with the requisite knowledge and abilities in performing the various project management disciplines in planning, coordinating, and executing IT projects and initiatives categorized as low to high complexity projects that require business analysis and project management support during the various phases of the state’s planning, analysis, procurement, implementation, and close-out, one (1) full-time business solutions analyst (BSA) consultant with the requisite knowledge and experience to plan, identify, gather, analyze, test, and document processes, data governance and rules, workflows, requirements, and recommendations for the department, and at least one (1) full-time technical lead (TL) with the requisite knowledge and experience to conduct, planning, analysis, design and architecture activities.
- The various approaches to project management, systems and business analysis, system development and replacement, analysis and IT process change activities and testing, including but not limited to: workload management, personnel management, time management, stakeholder management, operations support, documenting system rules and functional and non-functional requirements and organizational change management.
- The levels in relation to demand for services; improve customer experience through streamlined, easy-to-use services; and, reduce the cost of ongoing operating expenses and to be more flexible and nimbler for required changes.
- Project management services and support, the resource(s) will serve as an advisor to the department project manager and key management staff and provide the full range of project management duties.
- The project management resource(s) will require the skills, knowledge, and ability to plan, coordinate, and execute projects according to specific requirements and constraints.
- The various approaches to system development and replacement, personnel management, stakeholder management, operations support, and organizational change management while also demonstrating the ability to simultaneously manage several project management functional groups with various needs.
- The PM resource(s) will be responsible for all knowledge areas as defined by the project management institute’s (PMI) project management body of knowledge (PMBOK), across all process groups for this project.
- The business solution analyst resource(s) will apply expert and specialized functional and technical expertise to support the complexities of this project.
- This includes applying expert organizational principles and methods to analyze and build business processes that include business process re-engineering (BPR), develop solution-level requirements and user stories, and identify and recommend solutions that align to business processes.
- Provide subject matter expertise in industry standards and have expert knowledge of methods including governance, architect enterprise strategies for large complex programs, enterprise architecture planning, development, and management; business process design and reengineering; decision making and support for solution architecture development and management; and support the attainment of business strategy and its alignment with processes and IT strategy.
- The resource(s) will possess expert knowledge and technical expertise in standards and technologies to support complex business analysis, business process mapping and modeling and metrics, business process reengineering (BPR), requirements and user story development, solution selection, systems architecture, and application integration.
- The resource(s) will develop technical diagrams and models at a detailed level (e.g., UML diagrams, use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, etc.) that align with to-be business workflows, data rules, and detailed solution requirements and user stories using department approved tools (confluence draw.io, MS Visio).
- The business and technical analyst consultant resource(s) must have substantial experience in facilitating end-to-end requirements gathering including as-is and to-be workflows, analyzing federal and state program requirements for applicability, analyzing legislative mandates for impacts, ensuring full requirements traceability from existing requirements to future deliverables in the system development lifecycle for contract management and system acceptance purposes, developing epics, user stories and use cases, identifying and building test scripts and test scenarios, implementing and maintaining requirements in a configuration management tool, establishing and maintaining a robust change control process for identifying changes to the project system requirements and updating documentation based on those changes, and establishing a robust and repeatable framework for testing. 
- The business and technical analyst consultant resource(s) must have extensive experience working with key stakeholders and business subject matter experts (SMES) to identify opportunities for streamlining and making business processes more efficient and effective without contributing to technical complexity and technical debt. 
- The business analyst consultant resource(s) will apply expert and specialized functional and technical expertise to support the complexities of the required efforts. 
- This includes applying expert organizational principles and methods to analyze and build business processes that include business process re-engineering (BPR), develop solution-level requirements and user stories, and identify and recommend solutions that align to business processes. 
- The business analyst consultant resource(s) provide subject matter expertise in industry standards and have expert knowledge of methods including governance, architect enterprise strategies for large complex programs, enterprise architecture planning, development, and management; business process design and reengineering; decision making and support for solution architecture development and management; and support the attainment of business strategy and its alignment with processes and IT strategy. 
- The business analyst consultant resource(s) will possess expert knowledge and technical expertise in standards and technologies to support complex business analysis, business process mapping and modeling and metrics, BPR, requirements and user story development, solution selection, systems architecture, and application integration.
- Budget: $5,000,000.00

- Contract Period/Term: 5 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: September 08, 2025