Specifications include, but are not limited to: The School District of Manatee County (the “District”) hereby requests proposals from qualified firms for professional services including the conversion of data and custom programs where applicable, data archiving, installation, implementation of software and best practices, integrations to third party applications, customer training with documentation, and offsite hosting for the upgrade of the District’s current enterprise resource planning system. The District seeks proposals from firms with experience in the conversion of an existing Oracle JD Edwards (“JDE”) World ERP (version A9.3.1) to Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne (“E1”). The District currently holds licenses for the JD Edwards World and the E1 ERP suites. As part of this RFP, the District seeks firms with extensive experience in ERP process development, implementation, and conversion for the public sector, including local or state governments and/or for large scale educational institutions at least the size of the School District of Manatee County. The general scope for this project includes the capture and documentation of all existing District processes, development of a plan for systematically converting and replacing all existing JDE World ERP modules with like-in-kind JDE E1 ERP modules (including custom programs, files, and processes), the conversion and implementation of the new ERP system, to include process analysis by the firm during the planning phase to ensure adherence to best practices in all areas of the District’s current data structure, client training, and offsite hosting.
