Systems Implementation Partner for a New Financial Management System and Integration Platform as a Service

The State is seeking to acquire services from a Systems Implementation Partner (“SIP”) to support:

• The configuration, testing and deployment of the Oracle Fusion Cloud Financial Management System (“Oracle FMS”); and

• The development, testing and deployment of integrations between various State Agency systems and the new across government FMS, leveraging the MuleSoft Anypoint Integration Platform as a Service (“MuleSoft”).

This Procurement Process forms a key part of the State’s Finance Reform Program, which is being managed by the Public Authority on behalf of all in-scope government agencies (“State Agencies”).

The Invitation has been structured to allow Respondents to submit an Offer to provide system implementation services for either the FMS or PaaS or both components.

The evaluation process has been structured accordingly. The State’s decision on whether to select a single Respondent for both components, or a separate Respondent for each, will be determined based on which approach delivers the best overall value for money outcome.

The objectives of the Finance Reform Program (“FRP”) include:

• Implementing the Oracle FMS on time and budget;

• Minimising operational impacts to State Agencies during the transition;

• Establishing a technical architecture aligned to the principles of the SA Cyber Security Framework (to a protected level);

• Developing and adopting standard business processes and system configuration to minimise cost and reduce risk (“adopt not adapt”);

• Streamlining and automating current financial processes to achieve efficiency improvements;

• Ensuring the solution facilitates effective management of the State’s finances in accordance with legislative requirements, accounting standards and audit controls;

• Implementing a support model which provides the State with ongoing access to new FMS functionality and releases over time and simplifies machinery of government changes; and

• Maintaining operational stability and performance of the legacy Masterpiece environment until such time as it can be decommissioned.

Specific objectives for this Procurement Process include:

• Engaging a highly qualified, capable and experienced System Implementation Partner(s) (“SIP”) to work collaboratively with the FRP Team to successfully deploy the new FMS across all State Agencies;

• Establishing acceptable contract terms and conditions that meet the State’s requirements and effectively mitigate key implementation risks, such as material time and cost variations and cyber-security;

• Ensuring appropriate arrangements are established to facilitate knowledge transfer from the successful Respondent to the State’s internal project team (“FRP Team”) and the resources allocated to provide ongoing support services;

• Obtaining a commitment from the successful Respondent to utilise South Australian-based technical resources (where possible) and co-locate key resources with the FRP Team;

• Enabling the FRP Team to take more responsibility for implementation activities over time (i.e. the successful Respondent’s project resources ramp down over an agreed period, however, capability is maintained to provide the FRP Team with advice and support where required); and

• Value for money, particularly overall service provision costs and associated commercial arrangements to deal with scope, configuration and other variations that may arise during the term.

The successful and timely deployment of scalable, re-useable integrations between State Agency systems and the Oracle FMS is critical to the overall success of the FRP and achievement of the above objectives.

The contact officers for this invitation are as follows:

Please do not attempt to contact any persons from the Public Authority who are not listed above to discuss this Invitation.