Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Iowa Department of Education (IDOE) is interested in obtaining information from qualified vendors for the Iowa Department of Education portal. The IDOE is also interested in the vendors’ capabilities to implement, support, and train information technology (IT) staff and end users on the system. This Request for Information (RFI) is the first in a series of steps to pragmatically evaluate the products in the marketplace. The objective in requesting information is to identify the systems, software, and services of reputable and proven vendors with a demonstrated ability to provide a single sign access to IDOE applications. Further, the intent is to delineate the different options and features of these existing systems and the vendors’ ability to implement, support, and train. The IDOE portal software that is the focus of this RFI will manage users, applications, organizations and security. The IDOE is interested in learning about the software and hardware requirements for hosted solutions or software as a service vendor. The RFI encourages vendors with any of these approaches to respond. Vendors with technical solutions that can address the needs of this RFI and that also have other technical solutions for data acquisition, analysis, or administrative functions, which share the same architecture as the solution, should explain those add on products/options/modules to the IDOE.
