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Committee emphasizes team continuity and delivery approach while weighing schedule realism
Summary
Committee chair John McCarry led a category-by-category scoring approach and members pressed firms on team continuity, bypass concepts and long-lead procurement; members discussed a vendor claim of early operational capability by August 2028.
Committee chair John McCarry said the committee would "go through each category" across all firms so members could compare differentiating factors in the scoring criteria, rather than scoring a firm end-to-end: "My preference... would be to go through each category," he told the committee.
Throughout deliberations members flagged project-specific matters that affected scores: team continuity (whether key personnel had worked together in similar roles), recent project experience in the last 10 years, and a firm's approach to bypassing existing systems and long-lead procurement. John McCarry summarized a firms' claim about schedule ambition: "They were confident their ability to deliver early operational functionality by August 2028, 2 months ahead of the counties," a point the committee weighed when scoring approach and schedule realism.
Committee members used those considerations to distinguish top-tier proposals from tightly clustered competitors and to justify consensus moves of one to a few points between firms.
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