Re: School Board's $22.9 million IT Upgrade

So local agencies are already reporting most (presumably) of this data already?  The state just wants to modernize or replace their own system?  Then I would expect a lot of (re-)training costs as well as software modification/replacement costs.  So if we guesstimate that your estimate for software is reasonable, multiply by 10, add in twice as much for training, $9M.  That  leaves $20M for wining & dining.

Don't underestimate that last. Back in the 1970's I was part of a company that submitted a bid to provide hardware and software for all school districts in NC.  We had already installed our software on a System 38 in Cumberland County (Fayetteville area) and a couple of smaller districts. The committee evaluating software chose ours. The people making the decision chose Burroughs hardware and software. Our guess was that Burroughs had a bigger budget for entertainment.

On 2/11/2019 2:34 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

Local agencies acquire their own educational information systems through
their own procurement programs. About 15 systems exist in the state. All of
them must meet the state's data-reporting requirements. With one exception,
the school board doesn't pay for local agency systems - and that exception
was not budgeted for in the project scope. At least there was no mention of
that system in project documents. Maintenance of that system is included in
their annual baseline budget.


On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 3:23 PM Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Perhaps they are planning to pay for software for all school districts
to collect the information, or to interface their software to the
state's. Or do all schools in Utah use the same software?