Bill Text: NY A01713 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates a state information technology innovation center or iCenter to develop and demonstrate technology solutions with potential benefit to the state and its citizens; facilitates the piloting of potential solutions to state technology requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-20 - substituted by s1121a [A01713 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01713-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1713--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
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        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  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The state technology law is amended by adding a new section
     2  103-a to read as follows:
     3    § 103-a. State information technology innovation center. 1. The direc-
     4  tor  may  establish  a state information technology innovation center or
     5  "iCenter" to develop, pilot, and consider technology solutions to assist
     6  the state, state agencies, authorities, municipalities and other govern-
     7  mental entities find potential solutions to their  technology  needs  or
     8  requirements.  The  director  shall ensure the iCenter complies with all
     9  state laws, rules, regulations, and policies.  Vendor  participation  in
    10  the iCenter shall not be construed to:
    11    (a)  create preferred status for any vendor in any government procure-
    12  ment, or
    13    (b) abrogate the requirement that technology procurements are  awarded
    14  pursuant to all applicable laws, including such laws requiring a compet-
    15  itive process.
    16    2.  The  director  shall implement, by regulation, procedures to carry
    17  out the provisions of this section. Such procedures shall  include,  but
    18  not be limited to:
    19    (a)  establishing  the process for selecting vendors for participation
    20  in the iCenter, which shall be a public process;
    21    (b) establishing a process to  determine  which  technology  needs  or
    22  requirements shall be iCenter initiatives; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02481-02-7
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     1    (c) establishing safeguards to ensure the iCenter does not function in
     2  a  manner  that  results  in  the  circumvention of competitive bidding,
     3  including but not limited to through single and sole source exemptions.
     4    3.  The  director  shall  conduct  an  outreach campaign informing the
     5  public of the iCenter and shall conduct specific  outreach  to  minority
     6  and  women-owned  business  enterprises  certified  pursuant  to article
     7  fifteen-A of the executive law, small businesses as such term is defined
     8  in section one hundred thirty-one of the economic development  law,  and
     9  service  disabled  veteran owned business enterprises certified pursuant
    10  to article seventeen-B of the executive law to inform such businesses of
    11  iCenter initiatives.
    12    4. Every October first, beginning in two thousand eighteen, the direc-
    13  tor shall submit a report to the speaker of the assembly, the  temporary
    14  president  of the senate, and the governor detailing iCenter initiatives
    15  undertaken in the prior year. Such  report  shall  include  but  not  be
    16  limited to: an identification of any resources used to support the iCen-
    17  ter  in  the  prior  year;  the number and nature of iCenter initiatives
    18  undertaken in the prior year; the identity of vendors that  participated
    19  in the iCenter in the prior year, any iCenter initiatives piloted in the
    20  prior  year  that  were subsequently awarded a procurement contract with
    21  any state agency; any future initiatives being considered for  inclusion
    22  in  the  iCenter; and an evaluation of the effectiveness of the iCenter.
    23  Such report shall be publicly posted on the office's website.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    25  have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed June 30, 2020.