Specifications include, but are not limited to: •Gather environmental information through interviews, on-site inspections, and review of fiscal and human resources data;•Assess the capabilities, limitations, operational states, and cybersecurity status of the respective distributed IT organizations; •Determine human and technical obstacles to the rationalization initiative and recommend technological and/or change management strategies to address them; •Assess the distributed IT departments’ in-place capacity to meet the IT resource and service needs of the respective parent colleges and divisions; •Assess the potential for improving career growth and professional development opportunities for the distributed IT workforce; •Synthesize all assessments and recommendations into a detailed implementation plan, to include specific details regarding the distributed resources that should be merged into UCF IT; IT infrastructure needing to be updated, replaced, or secured; and the direct or recoverable costs of implementation;•In conjunction with the implementation plan, develop a change management plan to include communications, service level agreements (SLAs), rationalization of obsolete or redundant infrastructure, and governance structures and other mechanisms to address ongoing needs and service levels;•Assess the fiscal impact of the proposed rationalization effort, to include transition implementation costs, potential downstream fiscal impacts (costs, savings), and impact of the new Responsibility Center Management (RCM) university budget model that will be implemented effective July 1, 2020.
