Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Financial Management & Budget Book (BB) Creation Software Solutions

The City of Columbus, through its Department of Finance and Management, is seeking proposals from qualified publishers or authorized partners to develop a comprehensive Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Financial Management System and Budget Book Creation Software. The goal is to replace the existing system with a more efficient, integrated, and user-friendly platform that facilitates capital improvement planning, budgeting, and project tracking. The new CIP system should enable users to create and manage customized CIP and capital improvement budgets, perform budget amendments, generate scheduled and ad-hoc reports, and support project scoring, prioritization, and data entry with relevant fields such as project name, description, location, dates, status, and mapping features. Additionally, the software for Budget Book creation aims to streamline the generation of annual Budget Books, allowing for template creation, data import/export, page formatting, visualization, and comprehensive data manipulation to produce detailed budget documents. The solicitation, identified as RFQ028995, was posted on October 18, 2024, with a response deadline of November 27, 2024. The contract size is estimated between $500,000 and $2,000,000, and the project falls under NAICS code 541370, which pertains to specialized design services. The contract is organized under the State and Local Government Enterprise Development (SLED) category, with the work to be performed within Ohio. Interested parties are directed to submit proposals via the Columbus Bonfire Hub platform, where additional details and submission instructions are available.