Software Systems Modernization

The Vendor is required software development partners to collaborate on the ongoing modernization of the in-house line-of business software created for county.
• primary goals of this engagement are:
• Assess the in-scope IDS applications and their database dependencies to identify technical debt, risks, and downstream impacts
• Deliver production-ready modernized application releases consistent with the deliverables and exit criteria agreed during discovery and outlined in Appendix B
• Preserve the functionality staff rely on: for each application brought into scope, support the workflows, features, and capabilities currently available to staff, with the exact scope and any intentional changes defined collaboratively with district
• Deliver a modern, consistent user interface that improves usability and supports efficient data entry for district staff, developed collaboratively with district input and professional UI/UX expertise from the selected partner
• Introduce a service boundary between the user interface and the database to improve encapsulation, testability, and long-term maintainability. This boundary should be designed with future flexibility in mind, so that the same service contracts could support alternative front-end technologies if district chooses to explore web-based delivery at a future date
• Transfer knowledge to district technical staff so they can independently maintain and extend the modernized system
• Deliver well-documented, clearly structured code and contribute to district’s growing body of engineering documentation and conventions, so that institutional knowledge is captured and shared across the team rather than held informally.