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Commission approves Oracle contract amendments to extend Connect 43 ERP/EPM go‑live to Oct. 1, 2025, and funds additional Oracle support
Summary
The commission approved Amendment 4 to extend the Connect 43 enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise performance management (EPM) go‑live to Oct. 1, 2025, and approved two 12‑month cooperative agreements with Oracle for advanced technical support and functional experts to supplement county subject‑matter experts during implementation.
Wayne County commissioners approved three Connect 43 items: Amendment 4 to the Oracle contract to extend the ERP/EPM project timeline, a 12‑month cooperative agreement for advanced Oracle technical support (OCI/IAM) and a 12‑month cooperative agreement for Oracle functional experts to assume responsibilities from existing county subject‑matter experts (SMEs).
Mike Jamieson, Connect 43 project director, said the replan amendment shifts the target go‑live for ERP and EPM from April 1, 2025 to Oct. 1, 2025 to allow testing and validation of additional reports and integrations discovered during implementation. Jamieson said the change was driven by reports and integrations “above and beyond what had been scoped into the original contract” that the team deemed critical to validate before going live.
Jamieson and other project staff said HCM is already live (July 2024) and EPM is in a soft launch; roughly 30 modules are in scope across the program, with multiple HCM submodules already operational. When asked about cost and schedule, Jamieson said the program budget figure had increased from about $69 million to approximately $128 million since his start on the project; the ERP go‑live shifted roughly one year from Oct. 1, 2024 to Oct. 1, 2025.
Staff described the two Oracle cooperative agreements as support to reduce burden on Wayne County SMEs, provide OCI/IAM technical expertise and supply Oracle functional experts who can take on day‑to‑day responsibilities from county SMEs during the remainder of implementation. Project staff said the intent is to let county SMEs focus on higher‑value tasks while Oracle experts handle technical escalations, documentation, regression testing and other operational tasks.
Some commissioners expressed concern that replacing or supplanting county SMEs with vendor personnel could dilute frontline user input and that additional change requests and costs may follow. Project staff said the supplements are intended to be collaborative and to mitigate brain‑drain impacts; staff agreed to provide a list of Wayne County employees working on the project and tenure information to commissioners.
Commissioner Killeen moved approval; the motion was seconded and the chair recorded the motion carried.
