IBM Announces Team in Bid for San Diego County Transformation Project

IBM Announces Team in Bid for San Diego County Transformation Project

IBM today announced it would team with Accenture and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), for the County of San Diego’s seven-year Information Technology and Telecommunications contract.

As the prime contractor, IBM, the world’s largest IT services company, would have overall responsibility for one of the largest, most comprehensive outsourcing contracts in local government. The procurement not only calls for managing the infrastructure of the County’s IT systems, but helping the County to improve its business processes as well.

In its Request for Proposal, released on May 19, 2005, the County has stated its goal is to “substantially improve the value of services provided by the County to its citizens, to reduce the overall cost of government, and to raise the level of quality of its programs.”

IBM and its team members, collectively called Innovation San Diego, have a long history of managing IT and business process transformation projects at the local, state and federal levels. Innovation San Diego team members currently support local government programs in Miami-Dade County, Florida; Monroe County, New York; Clark County, Nevada; Los Angeles, California Unified School District; New York City, New York; and the County of San Diego, California. The Innovation San Diego team will utilize their collective world class IT services capabilities and experience in local government solutions to accomplish the County’s goals.

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