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State Fiscal Accountability Authority requests $3.2M to complete SCC Pro procurement integration with SKIS
Summary
Grama Gillespie, executive director of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, told the Constitutional Subcommittee the agency needs $3,200,000 to finish SCC Pro, a procurement-system modernization that integrates the state purchasing module with SKIS and expands participation to local governments and higher education.
Grama Gillespie, executive director of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority (SFAA), asked the Constitutional Subcommittee for a $3,200,000 nonrecurring appropriation to complete SCC Pro, the agency’s purchasing modernization project that integrates the state purchasing module with the SKIS system.
Gillespie said the effort has been under way about 18 months and that the requested funds are needed because the project’s scope changed during implementation. “What it'll do in terms of efficiencies is greater transparency,” she said, describing benefits such as better data on purchases, improved negotiating leverage when renewing contracts, and the ability to bring local governments and higher education institutions into the purchasing platform indirectly so they can piggyback on state contracts.
Gillespie told the committee the request covers the additional technical work required to complete “wave 2” of the implementation and that, absent funding, the agency would need to negotiate extensions with SKIS and vendors (she identified KPMG as a contractor) and could face a breach-of-contract risk. She said the SFAA has used nonrecurring cash and carryforward funds to date and needs an appropriation to finish the integration.
Committee members asked whether the project ties to recent reviews of the SKIS system and whether the request would enable local governments and higher education to make fuller use of SKIS purchasing functionality. Gillespie said the SCC Pro work is the purchasing-component integration and that successful completion would allow broader participation; additional integrations would be required for other SKIS functionality.
No formal vote was taken; the request was presented for committee consideration during the budget process.
