RFI-RC-07-004 - Peoplesoft eProcurement Supplier Integration Assistance/Solution

Summary of Specifications:
The purpose of this Request for Information is to inform the private sector of a potential business opportunity to provide consulting services or a software product to solve the problem of transmitting an electronic purchase order from the County’s Peoplesoft 8.8 eProcurement System to Cardinal Health on of the nation’s largest medical products distributors. 

The County of Rockland is seeking a solution to integrating Peoplesoft 8.8 eProcurement with one of the largest Medical Products Distributors - Cardinal Health. We have been unsuccessful in having Cardinal Health accept the standard EDX purchase order that is dispatched from Peoplesoft. 

The issue is that Cardinal Health uses a Cardinal specific XML format, which differs from the XML format utilized by Peoplesoft. Cardinal interacts with a number of customers nationally who use Peoplesoft. Other Peoplesoft customers produce the standard XML file types, and then convert their Peoplesoft XML files to Cardinal XML via a third party software/partner or have a third party software/partner convert their XML to an EDI ANSI-X12 file type. 

Rockland County intends for this Request for Information to identify qualified consulting firms or solution providers to provide these services. A formal Request for Proposal may be issued in the near future that will result in the selection of qualified individual(s) or firm(s) to assist with the services specified.