Joseph Morris: October 2008 Archives

The New York State Department of Health has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to support the development of a centralized statewide enrollment center that will process applications and renewals for a portion of those eligible for the state's public health insurance programs. The objectives of this RFP are to:

• Operating a statewide toll-free Call center for Medicaid, Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus

• Developing and operating a statewide telephone and mail-in renewal system for Medicaid, Family health Plus an Child Health Plus;
• Administering the Premium Assistance Program;
• Administering the Family Health Plus Employer buy-in Program
• Managing the web-based renewal;
• Augmenting marketing and outreach materials developed by the New York State Department of Health; and
• Processing new applications and other renewals.

Estimated Value: The department of Health has estimated that they will award the vendor, subject to the availability of funds a $34 million dollar contract.

Due Date:  Responses to the proposal are due February 17, 2009. There is also a non-mandatory bidders conference on December 8, 2008.

More information can be found here: Enrollment Center RFP Opportunity
 

Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer of Washington, D.C. continues to demonstrate why he is the "The Entrepreneur" as appropriately named by Public CIO magazine. Kundra continues to embrace innovative technologies  when he signed a contract with Google enabling city workers to use Google's web-based e-mail, spreadsheet and word-processing programs. This recent deal with Google demonstrates a move to a low-cost solution to improve government operations and citizen-service delivery. It will be interesting to see if other public sector jurisdictions deploy similar web-based applications.

Google Docs is a free web-based tool that allows people to work, collaborate and share word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.