Explanation
BACKGROUND
The City of Columbus, Auditor’s Office conducted a Request for Proposals (RFP) in accordance with Columbus City Code Section 329.28 for supplemental professional consulting and technical services for Dayforce, our enterprise-wide benefits administration, payroll, personnel management, and employee self-service system. These professional services are needed to augment City staff and to provide solution consulting by furnishing Dayforce technical experts and functional resources on an as needed basis.
The City is in need of specialized product and industry knowledge for optimizing use of the product in alignment with industry best practices. The City contracts with Dayforce value added services for some of these items; however, there is often a backlog or delay in assigning resources as Dayforce is rapidly expanding its user base and these resources are in high demand for implementation. Dayforce has expanded its capabilities by introducing a partner network certified in system integration and Dayforce consulting.
The City Auditor’s Office prepared and released the RFP on January 8, 2024. The bid was advertised in the City Bulletin and on the City’s Vendor Services website as well as notifications sent to 137 vendors registered for information technology consultation services in the same system. In addition, the City’s Auditor’s Office notified eight (8) Dayforce partners directly via email or through their contact web pages. The partners were sourced using Dayforce’s published Partner Network on its website. A total of 145 vendors were solicited in the following Office of Diversity & Inclusion (ODI) classifications as follows:
ODI Certification Count of Solicited Vendors
EBE 16
MBE 28
VBE|99|
WBE 10
MAJORITY/Publicly held 88
TOTAL 145
Five (5) responses were received by the proposal submission deadline, February 15, 2024 and all offers were from majority owned or publicly traded companies. The evaluation committee ranked all offero...
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