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PERS delays PARIS go‑live to January 2027; staff says project remains within budget
Summary
PERS staff told the committee that the new pension administration system (PARIS) deployment was delayed from June 2026 to January 2027 due to employer transition issues and bridging complexity; staff said the board authorized timeline and payment changes and expects to remain within the projected budget through go‑live.
Bridal Fazer, operations officer for Nevada PERS, told the Interim Retirement and Benefits Committee on Jan. 28 that the PARIS pension administration system's final deployment date has shifted from June 2026 to January 2027 and the board authorized a change request to the timeline and payment schedule in September 2025.
Fazer cited multiple causes for the timeline change: the last employer's internal modernization challenges required additional vendor and staff support; complex bridging between PARIS and the legacy Carson system required more programming and testing effort; and some desired functionality needed additional time to implement for a durable system. "We want the next system to last just as long" as the previous system, she said.
Cost and contract changes: The board extended the warranty from 18 to 24 months and committed to additional support hours; unused support hours will roll forward. In response to a Senator's question about cost, Fazer said the project will "stay within that cost, the projected cost" through go‑live and referenced the previously discussed projected budget (as recorded in the packet) while noting additional post‑go‑live programming could be added to the next biennial budget.
Next steps: PERS staff reported that all employers are now reporting to the PARIS staging environment, data conversion is nearly complete (staff said 99.996% of data converted to the target staging database), and staff will continue employer advisory group work and testing ahead of the revised deployment date.
