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Even the State of California
https://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2015/11/30/a-new-approach-to-procuring-government-technology-in-california/
A New Approach to Procuring Government
Technology in California
What was going to be a business-as-usual procurement (a long, thousand-
plus page contract for a complete solution, driven by requirements and a likely
waterfall delivery) of a new Child Welfare System will now be a series of
procurements for long-term services, not solutions, driven by
understanding and meeting user needs, delivered iteratively.
Child welfare services personnel in California investigate nearly half a million reports
of severe maltreatment and life-threatening neglect to children a year. Of those half a
million, around 80,000 reports are confirmed annually, 30,000 children must be removed
from their homes, and at any time almost 100,000 children are living in foster care for
their protection or live with their parents under close county protective supervision.
The Child Welfare System was the perfect
choice for a new approach because it’s too
important to fail.
NOVEMBER 30, 2015