Title: Texas Health and Human Services Commission HHSC
1Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)
- Enterprise Information Technology
- Cost Containment
- Request for Information 529-08-0214
- Vendor Conference May 14, 2008
2Welcome
- Introductions
- Katherine Smith, Contact Administrator,
Enterprise Contract and Procurement Services
(ECPS) - Gary Gumbert, Chief Information Officer (CIO),
Enterprise Information Technology - Housekeeping Items
3HHSC Procurement Roles
- ECPS- Responsible for procurement activity
- Program- Responsible for project scope,
requirements, performance, and results - Legal- Questions/answers and legal activity
4Vendor Conference Overview
- RFI Overview
- Questions Submittal
- Break
- Preliminary Responses to Questions
- Closing Comments
5Enterprise IT Cost Containment
- RFI Overview
- Gary Gumbert, CIO
- HHSC Enterprise Information Technology
6Health and Human Services Sandbox
Total TX State Budget FY 2007
68,749 Million
Fortune 500 (Revenue) 89. Travelers Companies at
25,090 M Texas HHSC at 24,997.2 M 90.
Massachusetts Mutual at 24,863 M
36 Health and Human Services
64 All Other TX Government Functions
7Enterprise IT Goals
- Mission
- To deliver optimal value at an affordable cost by
delivering customer focused IT services through a
commitment to continuous improvement. - Goals
- Manage and control IT to deliver value to HHS
business areas. - Provide quality, cost effective, and timely IT
services. - Optimize IT project and application portfolio to
meet customer business needs. - Optimize IT resources.
8Enterprise IT Cost Containment
- Purpose
- HHSCs purpose in publishing this Request for
Information (RFI) is to gather information
regarding strategies and possible solutions that
will assist HHS Enterprise Information Technology
(EIT) Division in developing future Requests for
Offer (RFOs). - Mission Statement
- HHSC seeks Best Value solutions, the optimum
combination of economy and quality that is the
result of fair, efficient, and practical
procurement decision-making and which achieves
health and human services program objectives.
9IT Strategies for 2004-2009
New IT Services Based Operations, Service
Delivery and Cost Model build on SOA / UCE
concepts that enable HHS Business
Transformation INTEGRATED BUSINESS / IT PLANNING
AND GOVERNANCE
Shared IT Infrastructure Based on Utility
Computing Standards (Data Center Consolidation)
Application Standardization and Consolidation
based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
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Global Information Standards HIPPA, HL7, HHSXML
(New), MITA etc
IT Infrastructure Outsourcing (Messaging and
Collaboration, WAN, VoIP)
Strategic Sourcing including Business Process
Outsourcing of Non-Core and Selected Core
Business Functions
70
Commodity Purchasing Model Based on a Services
Model
70
Application/Services Asset Re-Use across Business
Domains
10Roadmap Considers MITA across Business and IT
Year 3 Enterprise Organized As BC (Based on New
BM)
Year 1 Piloting/Planning New Business Models (BM)
Year 2 Program enabled as New Business Components
(BC) and BM
Year 4 Programs Executing to New BM and Shared
BCs
Year 5 Real Time and Resource Optimized Enterprise
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Year 1 Piloting/Planning New IT Model
Year 2 New IT Model by Program
Year 4 IT Executing to New BM and Shared BCs
Year 5 IT as a Service Oriented Organization
Optimized To Business Objectives
Year 3 IT Transitioning To New Governance Model
based on BM
11Enterprise IT Cost Containment
- Mission Objective
- HHSCs objective for publishing this request is
to develop strategies for solutions that will - Contain costs related to contracts currently up
for renewal - Identify qualified vendors of potential
solutions for information - technology functionalities
- Create and coordinate efficiencies for systems,
tools and - applications which provide services
- Maximize and optimize state funding resources
for program - initiatives across HHS enterprise and
- Evaluate the cost-effectiveness of possible
migrations and - remediation for applications and tools.
12Enterprise IT Cost Containment
- Scope
- HHSC EIT is requesting information it may use in
a future RFO regarding cost-effective
alternatives and solutions for current
functionalities provided in these specific areas
of interest - Database - Oracle
- Desktop applications - Microsoft
- Human Resources PeopleSoft
- Middleware Tools / Application server IBM
Websphere family of products
13Enterprise IT Cost Containment
- Software support currently version N-1
- Functionality changes are not sufficient enough
to press the upgrade - Business is trapped by technology.
- Software pricing model
- Extend the support for tools
- End of life COTS solutions
- Software upgrades are driving hardware upgrades
- Contain costs of software upgrades
- Address these costs across the environments
- Industry addressing these issues
- Accessibility
- Customization
- Open source technology
14Conclusion
Response to RFI Due June 2, 2008