Specifications include, but are not limited to:STATE is soliciting business process modeling and business analysis services to be provided by a qualified consultant with technical expertise in business process modeling and other business analysis, research and business strategy disciplines. The contractor will direct, facilitate, develop and document business process models of STATE, as well as documenting core business requirements for a future system, and analyzing requirements and other information to provide strategic recommendations for a build versus buy decision point. The business process models must be developed and documented for both the current state and future state processes to provide a consistent graphical representation of business processes that facilitate a common understanding and means of communicating our business. STATE anticipates using the future state process models to aid in determining how to replace current systems. The current state of processes are to be documented to the level of detail necessary to provide full transparency and clarity of the process flow, so that process owners and process analysts can clearly understand the current process flow in order to effectively judge the efficiencies of the current flow and identify opportunities for process improvement. The future state of the processes are to be documented to the level of detail necessary to provide sufficient information for a prospective vendor, staff member, or project member to understand the business targets for a new application and to identify potential opportunities for process improvement. STATE anticipates using these future state process models to aid in determining how to replace current systems, and within any future replacement projects. In addition to the development of business process models the STATE is looking to identify potential business process improvements that STATE can evaluate for implementation prior to replacement of the system. Once current and future states are understood, it is then required to document the core business requirements for a new business system. The need for these requirements are twofold: Firstly, the requirements are needed to gain an understanding of the minimum feature set needed to support the business, and secondly, the requirements are needed in order to serve as a baseline for comparison of feature sets between a custom-developed application and any of a number of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Systems. Having developed business modeling and requirements information, the vendor is expected to provide research and analysis to determine the most feasible, business-appropriate solution – to continue development of the custom application, or to pursue a COTS solution. Please note, the successful contractor for this RFP will not be able to bid on any future solicitations that are part of any software solution that may result from this RFP. The business process models and requirements analyses are to be developed using standard process modeling and business analysis tools, methods and formats. The contractor shall provide at a minimum, the following deliverables: Project plan/schedule