Advance Notice of Procurement Opportunity

NOTICE OF PROCUREMENT OPPORTUNITY

The below RFP is now available at https://doit.illinois.gov/news/procurement/solicitation-sapsi20251.html

ADVANCE NOTICE OF PROCUREMENT OPPORTUNITY (July 31, 2024)

The Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is announcing an upcoming opportunity for vendors to respond to a planned solicitation for a system integrator to migrate the State’s current SAP Enterprise Resource Planning NS2 environment with Virtustream to a Cloud Service Provider. It is expected that this solicitation will have a Business Enterprise Program participation goal.

DoIT anticipates releasing the solicitation in August 2024 on this website. This is an exempt procurement that will not be posted on BidBuy.

This notice is not a request for offers, proposals, bids, or other information. No response is requested, and no responses will be considered. DoIT will not accept nor respond to questions related to this notice. Further information about this planned solicitation will be posted at https://doit.illinois.gov/news/procurement.html.

The State of Illinois Buying Plan is designed to serve as a single-destination for useful information to the State's vendor community and to make vendors aware of the upcoming purchasing needs for a range of agencies. 

This initiative is led by the Bureau of Strategic Sourcing (BoSS) team, who are committed to expanding the content of the document so that vendors interested in providing their goods and/or services to the State are informed, prepared, and ready to respond to the State solicitations.

In addiition to the quarterly forecast of upcming opportunities, the most recent addition of the Plan features sections on doing business with the State, small an disadvantaged business programs, an overviw of the registration and pre-qualification requirements and how to access technical assistance.