Re: School Board's $22.9 million IT Upgrade

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

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?