Specifications include, but are not limited to: Union County is seeking a budgeting software to improve efficiency of Union County’s current budgeting process to serve citizens and staff. Software should include the capability to produce budget documents, multi-year budget projections, various graphics, and modeling. The software solution should integrate directly with all aspects of Union County’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) which is currently hosted by Tyler Technologies (Munis), import and export Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and have the ability to create a budget publication that can be formatted to meet the requirements of the Governmental Finance Officers Association Distinguished Budget Award guidelines. The budget publication will also be used to communicate the County’s budget in an easy-to-understand format and content including graphics, charts, and tables. The software must also include a planning and forecasting module to develop multi-year budget projections. The software is expected to be user-friendly, while delivering maximum benefits by using an easy-to-input data solution to manage and retrieve information for budget analysis, decision-making, reporting, and document archiving. The software solution should also include a public-facing, web-based portal that would allow Union County residents to access publicly shared data. Proposed software cannot have elements of vaporware initiatives, components that are still in development stage, or future concepts yet to be vetted. Only fully functional, production tested software will be considered.
