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This bill creates a State Information Technology Innovation Center to pilot tech solutions for government, with reporting and outreach requirements.
Why it matters
Creates a formal pathway for government entities to test new technology solutions before committing to procurement. , which could lead to improved services and cost savings through innovation and risk reduction.
Mandates transparency, competition, and fairness in the selection process for vendors and projects. , aiming to prevent favoritism, procurement circumvention, or single-source contracts that might otherwise undermine public trust or value for money.
Requires targeted outreach to minority- and women-owned businesses, small businesses, and service-disabled veteran-owned enterprises. , potentially increasing opportunities for underrepresented groups to participate in state technology initiatives.
Establishes annual public reporting on the program’s activities, participants, resource use, and outcomes. , providing ongoing oversight and accountability for both lawmakers and the public regarding the center’s effectiveness and impact.
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Create State Tech Center
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Sponsors
3 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Substituted by S1121A
- Rules report cal.526
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 1713a
- Amend (t) and recommit to governmental operations
- Referred to governmental operations
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Create State Tech Innovation Center
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Rich Funke
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1713--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI, McDONALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation to the creation of a state information technology innovation center; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The state technology law is amended by adding a new section 103-a to read as follows:
§ 103-a. State information technology innovation center. 1. The director may establish a state information technology innovation center or "iCenter" to develop, pilot, and consider technology solutions to assist the state, state agencies, authorities, municipalities and other governmental entities find potential solutions to their technology needs or requirements. The director shall ensure the iCenter complies with all state laws, rules, regulations, and policies. Vendor participation in the iCenter shall not be construed to:
(a) create preferred status for any vendor in any government procurement, or
(b) abrogate the requirement that technology procurements are awarded pursuant to all applicable laws, including such laws requiring a competitive process.
2. The director shall implement, by regulation, procedures to carry out the provisions of this section. Such procedures shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) establishing the process for selecting vendors for participation in the iCenter, which shall be a public process;
(b) establishing a process to determine which technology needs or requirements shall be iCenter initiatives; and
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(c) establishing safeguards to ensure the iCenter does not function in a manner that results in the circumvention of competitive bidding, including but not limited to through single and sole source exemptions.
3. The director shall conduct an outreach campaign informing the public of the iCenter and shall conduct specific outreach to minority and women-owned business enterprises certified pursuant to article fifteen-A of the executive law, small businesses as such term is defined in section one hundred thirty-one of the economic development law, and service disabled veteran owned business enterprises certified pursuant to article seventeen-B of the executive law to inform such businesses of iCenter initiatives.
4. Every October first, beginning in two thousand eighteen, the director shall submit a report to the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, and the governor detailing iCenter initiatives undertaken in the prior year. Such report shall include but not be limited to: an identification of any resources used to support the iCenter in the prior year; the number and nature of iCenter initiatives undertaken in the prior year; the identity of vendors that participated in the iCenter in the prior year, any iCenter initiatives piloted in the prior year that were subsequently awarded a procurement contract with any state agency; any future initiatives being considered for inclusion in the iCenter; and an evaluation of the effectiveness of the iCenter. Such report shall be publicly posted on the office's website.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed June 30, 2020.
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