DC Courts: Disciplined Processes Critical to Successful System Acquisition.

摘要

This letter responds to your August 20, 2001, request that we perform an initial review of the District of Columbia Courts' (DC Courts) effort to acquire a new information system. Faced with a myriad of nonintegrated systems that do not provide the necessary information to support its overall mission, the DC Courts is in the process of acquiring a replacement system called the Integrated Justice Information System (IJIS). This system is expected to address the current system's deficiencies and provide DC Courts with the information it needs to perform its mission. The District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 2001, provides that none of the funds in the act or in any other act shall be available for the purchases, installations, or operation of IJIS until a detailed plan and design has been submitted by DC Courts and approved by the House and Senate committees on appropriations. DC Courts is in the initial stages of the system acquisition effort-developing a request for proposal (RFP) to solicit bids from vendors for the design and implementation of the new system. As required, this detailed plan and design, which includes a draft RFP, was submitted to the appropriations committees on May 17, 2001, for review.