Today: Bidders Conference: COVID-19 Challenge – CalVax – The California Department of Technology is hosting a bidders conference on behalf of CDPH today, Oct. 28, to discuss California Vaccine Management Solution (CalVax), previously called as COVID-19 Immunization System (CCIS) in the RFI released on 10/09/2020. The conference will include two sessions: 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. PST and 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. PST. . Phase 1 Solicitation Submission Deadline – 10/30/2020 5:00 p.m. PST. More details are here: https://www.caleprocure.ca.gov/event/75021/0000017758
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How California managed a flood of phony PPE offers – California officials dealing with an overwhelming number of personal protective equipment vendors — some illegitimate — said during an webcast Tuesday that using a cloud-based customer relationship management system, rather than a system based on emails or spreadsheets, saved time and lives at the onset of the pandemic. Officials said in a webcast hosted by Salesforce that they used the company’s software to procure more than $2 billion of PPE and medical equipment in just 45 days at the beginning of the pandemic. StateScoop 10/28/20
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Excess Software Expenditure is Draining Budgets – Choice or Challenge? – The average 4,000 person enterprise will spend over $15M on software annually. Yet how many organizations have absolute clarity on where within that spend shelfware exists and the potential to strip out that waste? How many have invested sufficiently in the discipline necessary to reliably identify, interpret, analyse and act on this management? Reality – far too few! Gartner Blog 10/28/20
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How HHS used agile to improve oversight – The IT infrastructure at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General was long overdue for an overhaul. Its legacy technology stack, which was never intended for mobility, social media, business intelligence and data mining tools was preventing innovation, according to John B. O’Grady, acting director of OIG’s Digital Services Division. GCN 10/27/20
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California Unveils Strategy to Help Navigate Data Landscape – California’s open data portal contains a multitude of data sets, including COVID-19 hospital data, sea level rise maps and areas in the state deemed suitable for affordable housing development. Now, the Golden State has a strategy to govern all of the data it collects. StateTech 10/22/20
