Office of Systems Consulting February 2, 2006 Frank Schleicher, NUIT F-schleicher@northwestern. edu -- 7 -3796
2 What is OSC? An In-House Consulting Service – Independent – Access to NUIT • Resources • Information
3 What is OSC? Specifically – Contract Review – Acquisition Support
4 Contract Review • Important Question: Who can commit the University? – IT takes a VP … to sign for NU • NU Policy – Review of all administrative software purchases – NOT desktop, NOT shrink-wrap – Includes independent development work
5 Contract Review • Contract Assistance with … – More favorable pricing and payment structures – Improved acceptance testing criteria – More favorable design criteria – Greater Security in handling sensitive data – Improved communication … serving as singlepoint-of contact
6 Contract Review • Presently … – Begins with Vendor “Paper” – Followed by NUIT Review – Returned to Vendor for their Review – Completed by NUIT Legal Review • In the Future … – Standard NU T&C’s – Emerging practices
7 Contract Review If you are involved in a contract process … Please Ask!
8 What Else?
9 Software Acquisition – Diversity of acquisition and development at NU • Overlapping efforts • Impact on existing systems • History … – Past projects • Lessons learned
10 Software Acquisition • Process … – Information gathering – Requirements definition • Functional • Technical – Exploration and Consensus
11 Software Acquisition • More … – RFP Generation, including • RFP Templates • Evaluation/Assessment documents • Demo scripts – Vendor-Process Management • Release of RFP • Vendor conferencing • Demo Scheduling
12 Software Acquisition • More … – Internal IT Assistance and Coordination – Decision Coordination • Ours is a Process Focus – Negotiation
13 Software Acquisition Purpose … – Obviously … to help the University make the best possible choice – To help you get the most out of your resources – To involve all the right people
14 Q& A Frank Schleicher 7 -3796 f-schleicher@northwestern. edu
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