Board selects Guidehouse for strategic planning; emphasis on implementation
After debate about cost and implementation capacity, the board selected Guidehouse to lead the county's strategic planning process and stressed that implementation and project management must be built into the contract.
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Staff presented two finalists and emphasized the need to include implementation support so the resulting strategic plan would be actionable. Commissioners discussed price, references and whether the vendor could support enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation; several members stressed the importance of project-management capacity. The board voted to award the strategic-planning contract to Guidehouse, with attention to ensuring implementation steps are clearly specified in the scope.
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