AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2008 Awards: Enterprise IT Management Initiatives
RECIPIENT:
Virginia - Virginia Information Technology Infrastructure Partnership
The Commonwealth of Virginia and Northrop Grumman Corporation formed the largest public-private IT partnership in the nation in November 2005. Valued at $1.9 billion over ten years, the IT Infrastructure Partnership is resulting in a $270 million capital investment, a modern standardized IT infrastructure “utility” with improved services at predictable costs, and economic development. The partnership is self-funded, with no additional costs to taxpayers. All state IT employees retained their jobs during the transition. The state’s Information Technology Investment Board and Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) provide oversight.
In 31 months, VITA and Northrop Grumman:
Modernized much of Virginia’s infrastructure – Virginia has two custom-built, secure and reliable data center and backup data center facilities with redundancy and advanced physical security. To date, Virginia replaced more than half of the infrastructure, and significantly enhanced the security of sensitive citizen information.
Measured IT Infrastructure performance across the enterprise – VITA and Northrop Grumman began measuring and managing to enterprise metrics in July 2006. Beginning July 2008, Virginia has been actively monitoring, measuring and reporting on 159 service levels.
Standardized services and support – Virginia implemented IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices; standardized core infrastructure practices; and conducted a robust asset inventory validation process, including procedures to keep inventory current.
Increased transparency of IT infrastructure spending – Previously, visibility into IT infrastructure spending was limited. Today, IT infrastructure is a planned and budgeted expense.
Revitalized southwest Virginia – More than 400 high-tech jobs are being created in economically challenged southwest Virginia, including support for higher education and workforce initiatives.
Valued IT employee contributions – VITA employees did not lose jobs. Northrop Grumman provided 850 state IT workers job offers with comparable benefits, salary increases, signing bonuses and expanded training and career opportunities.
Virginia is getting a modern, efficient IT infrastructure for the same cost it was paying in 2005 to maintain an aging, 1980s environment. The return on investment includes:
- Investment of more than $270 million to modernize the state’s IT environment
- Cost avoidance of $200 million over the next decade if the state took no action
- Cost savings of $120 million over the next decade in energy costs
- Fixed $10 million in software license violations and under-funded IT programs
....Lemuel C. Stewart Jr, Chief Information Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia
FINALISTS:
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California
Office of Systems Integration: Large Project Management
Missouri
Active Directory & E-Mail Consolidation Project
OTHER NOMINATIONS:
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Alabama
Alabama Consolidated Email
Indiana
Indiana’s WebCMS Migration & Web Site Redesign
Kentucky
Kentucky Schools Impact Student Instruction by Replacing Over 100,000 Instructional Devices
Michigan
Michigan Statewide Office Platform
North Carolina
BEACON Lights the Way
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Next Generation Enterprise Computing Outsourcing
