| Division | Superintendent’s Office - Educator Licensure Section |
|---|---|
| Project / Program purpose and objectives | Replatform legacy technology and provide improved licensing services to educators and schools. |
| IT Goal and Objective Reference | Capability |
| Estimated start date | 12/1/2017 |
| Estimated deliver date | 12/31/2022 |
| Estimated cost | TBD |
| HB 10 Request | No |
| Funding Sources | TBD: |
| Annual costs upon completion | TBD |
| Status of the project as of March 31, even numbered years. Indicate % completed and status of funds expended. | 0%/0% Project is currently in initiation phase. OPI is conducting analysis and preparing materials for an RFP. The OPI is also seeking to establish sustainable funding in the 2021 legislative session. Should that be successful we would expect a new system project to ramp up in 2021 with a new timeline and identified funding sources. In the meantime the current system is being supported in a break-fix mode with minor functionality updates. |
| Division | Health Enhancement and Safety – Child Nutrition Programs |
|---|---|
| Project / Program purpose and objectives | Enhances broadband connectivity in remote locations to fully utilize the OPI’s cloud based child nutrition software • Integrates the USDA’s Free/Reduced application into the Child Nutrition Program • Expands Menu Planning functionality to allow more sponsor collaboration • Streamlines responses to Data Requests made by many and various partners, auditors, and government bodies • Streamlines data and simplifies the OPI’s reporting to the USDA • Upgrades and integrates Montana’s Direct Certification Application (DCA), which will reach end of life by 2021 • Deploys a mobile application for the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) • Helps provide the necessary technology for the SFSP Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) demonstration |
| IT Goal and Objective Reference | Capacity |
| Estimated start date | 10/1/2020 |
| Estimated deliver date | 9/30/2020 |
| Estimated cost | 1742656 |
| HB 10 Request | No |
| Funding Sources | Federal Grant: 1730656 General Fund: 12000 |
| Annual costs upon completion | 175000 |
| Status of the project as of March 31, even numbered years. Indicate % completed and status of funds expended. | 95% Project completed. 90% of funds expended. |
| Division | Measurement & Accountability |
|---|---|
| Project / Program purpose and objectives | Pilot project to streamline federal reporting and potentially provide a new technology infrastructure and platform for the OPI’s reporting systems. Through the US Department of Education funding, the Center for Integration of IDEA Data (CIID) is providing technical assistance, software, and implementation services to the OPI at no cost. |
| IT Goal and Objective Reference | Shared, Capacity, Capability |
| Estimated start date | 1/1/2018 |
| Estimated deliver date | 6/30/2019 |
| Estimated cost | 0 |
| HB 10 Request | No |
| Funding Sources | : |
| Annual costs upon completion | 0 |
| Status of the project as of March 31, even numbered years. Indicate % completed and status of funds expended. | 0%/0%. This project continues as a long term pilot project. Efforts have been delayed as M&A and IT restructured and worked on other higher-priority projects. OPI has continued to produce ed facts files using existing processes and systems and has not yet produced any files from the pilot system as of yet. The vendor has lost funding for the product but has continued to provide support. OPI, along with other interested States are continuing to support the product and intend to conduct a pilot to determine if it will be viable going forward. |