The vendor is required to provide information technology (it) audit of liberty utilities (granite state electric) corp d/b/a liberty (liberty) involving the effectiveness liberty’s efforts to install, integrate, implement and manage its conversion to the company operating system.
- Working collaboratively with department personnel to prepare discovery requests, review discovery responses, respond to discovery requests, prepare prefilled written testimony, conduct review and analysis of party testimony, prepare rebuttal testimony, assist with hearing preparation, provide live testimony if necessary, and prepare reports, as needed.
- Attending stakeholder group meetings, technical sessions, settlement conferences, and hearings, as needed.
- Review and assessment of the effectiveness of implementing all elements of the company solution by liberty including customer information systems (CIS) (customer service, billing, collections, meter readings, etc.), enterprise accounting management (EAM) (general ledger mapping, cash management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset management, procurement, inventory management), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) (project management, plant maintenance, project systems, scheduling, labor management, etc.).
- Review and assessment of the sufficiency and thoroughness of liberty’s preparations, planning, and management for the conversion to the company system including a review of liberty’s pre-conversion and post-conversion testing efforts to ensure system stability and how long it will take for the company system to stabilize.
- The assessment will also include onsite observations of the quality of company system-generated data processing to ensure new system stability and reliability.
- The auditor(s) may be called upon by the department to review specific data mapping issues and to respond to data requests or to testify regarding the audit process and findings during subsequent proceedings before the commission.
- The work of the auditor(s) will be subject to an evaluation of progress achieved against the above-referenced scope and tasks, to take place after completion of key deliverables identified during the project scoping meeting and subsequent regular status and progress meetings.
- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: May 19, 2025