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ITS Procurement Workshop. Module 4: How to Affect Change in ITS Procurement. Maryland SHA-Video. Maryland SHA-Lessons Learned. Good specifications exist for highway projects, but are not available for ITS Must be team with the contractor, to become part the development process
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ITS Procurement Workshop Module 4: How to Affect Change in ITS Procurement
Maryland SHA-Lessons Learned • Good specifications exist for highway projects, but are not available for ITS • Must be team with the contractor, to become part the development process • Other procurement options for IT already existed in the state
Discussion • Does your agency use the common rule? • Has your agency ever applied unique procurement methods, such as design/build?
A Procurement Action Plan • Steps towards creating your own action plan
You Will be Involved • Procurement of most projects run on auto pilot • More than likely, ITS projects require a champion to solve problems, manage change, etc.
Affecting Change • Know the basic procurement process • Know the staff • do they understand that ITS projects are different?
Some of the Players • Agency Procurement Office • Internal Counsel • Agency IT (?) • General Services Administration, Department of Administrative Services • Attorney General’s Office • FHWA Division Office
Procurement Laws and Regulations • What is classified as: • construction? • professional services? • non-professional services? • goods? • high technology or information technology (IT)?
Institutional Inertia What You’ve Always Done Policy Law “The Feds won’t let us do it that way.”
Exercise 4A: Develop ITS Procurement Action Plan • Internal Contacts • External Contacts • Near-Term Procurement Issues • Procurement Laws/Procedures
Exercise 4A Review • Internal Agency Contacts • External Contacts • How many did we know? • Any others?
Exercise 4A Review • Any ITS projects upcoming? • Assess your agency’s ability to manage these projects
Module 4Lessons Learned • MdSHA Lesson Review • Other procurement options existed in their jurisdiction • Teamwork with contractor • Affecting Change • The “players” in procurement • The relevant laws and regulations • ITS Procurement Action Plan