EXPRESSION OF INTEREST GIS Contracted Services Project Reference # 715.612
Date of issue: February 1, 2008 Proposals will be accepted by: Richard Kirke, Manager Information Technology Services 2001 Sherwood Drive Sherwood Park, AB T8A 3W7 Closing date: February 21, 2008 2:00:00 p.m. local time
OBJECTIVE Strathcona County is seeking to explore the market and establish a list of consultants with GIS expertise desiring to work with the Information Technology Services department, as required, in the areas of GIS analysis, GIS applications support and development and software installation, maintenance and upgrades. Successful candidates who are approached to provide contracted services may be required to sign a STANDARD FORM CONTRACT which will provide general guidelines for services. Work assignments will be made solely at the discretion of Strathcona County.
BACKGROUND The County has approximately 700 networked workstations and operates an ESRI ArcGIS 9.2 GIS environment on top of a Microsoft Windows based network with Windows 200X on the servers and Windows XP Professional on the desktop and laptop systems. The Servers and PCs in the organization run a wide variety of applications appropriate to the job functions and the lines of business. The County has computer systems in approximately 30 buildings, and several of these are up to 50 km from Sherwood Park, the main urban centre of Strathcona County. A significant number of staff are located at County Hall, in Sherwood Park, and the remainder are deployed in the other buildings. The County GIS is supported by a staff of twenty in Information Technology Services (ITS) department, four of whom are specialists in the GIS Service Area. There are approximately 65 dispersed GIS users of varying skill levels in the other County departments, not including the County GIS Wizard which is part of every standard desktop. The following is a summary of products and platforms used within Strathcona County’s GIS environment: GIS/CADD Software / Technologies: ArcVIEW (15 concurrent,1 single) ArcEditor(6 licenses) ArcINFO(5 licenses)
ArcINFO Workstation ArcGIS Server ArcIMS
ArcPublisher ArcReader ArcSDE AutoCAD AutoDESK Land Desktop AutoDESK Map 3D CAMALOT – Tax Assessment Central Asset Management System -(Automated Vehicle Location)
ESRI 3D Analyst ESRI Network Analyst ESRI Spatial Analyst ESRI Maplex SafeSoftware FME FDM Fire Dispatch GeoExpress (Lizardtech) MapOptix (ArcIMS) VueWorks (ArcIMS)
Custom Built GIS Applications / Technologies: Collision, Traffic and Road Inventory System Property Locator My Neighbourhood Infrastructure Drawing Retriever Tool GIS Wizard Bylaw Services App Bylaw Services Viewer
MS-SQL/MapObjects MS-SQL/ArcIMS MS-CMS/ArcIMS MS-SQL/AecSDE/ArcIMS MapObjects MapObjects ArcIMS
The following lists are provided for information. They describe the systems and application software the County uses to support our business functions; System Software / Technologies: Active Directory Citrix GroupWise Linux Microsoft Server 2000 O/S Microsoft XP Desktop O/S
MS SQL Server Netware 6.5 Oracle 10.1 TrendMicro Anti-Virus VMware/Virtualization Voice/Data Networking
Application Software / Technologies: Adobe Acrobat Adobe PhotoShop Bellamy Software (DB2) ColdFusion MX7 Crystal Reports HTML J2EE Java
Oracle JD Edwards World (DB2) Adobe Dreamweaver MS Content Management Server MS Office Products MS Visual Studio .NET SQL/Plus XML
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
1. Interested parties should include the following information in their submission: a. Experience – in detail by objective, including: length of time, details of work completed, which software/platform utilized and company names b. References – include summary of work completed for the client, dates of services, contact name(s), address c. Fee Structure 2. Strathcona County Contact: Richard Kirke, Manager Information Technology Services 2001 Sherwood Drive Sherwood Park, AB T8A 3W7 Telephone: (780) 464-8052 E-mail address: kirke@strathcona.ab.ca 3. Expression of Interest submissions are requested by 2:00:00 p.m. local time Thursday, February 21, 2008. Expressions of Interest are to be delivered to the Strathcona County contact.
Document #: Facility Services Library.0715.31108.1 Created/Revised: January 28, 2008 Created by: Wille, Yvonne