Virginia re-ups CGI-AMS for e-procurement work
- By Ethan Butterfield
- Oct 05, 2006
A five-year, $65 million contract renewal to host, maintain and operate Virginia's Web-based procurement portal has been granted to CGI-AMS Inc.
The portal, known as eVA, is designed to reduce costs and create efficient purchasing processes by funneling procurements through a single, secure, electronic portal. The portal is powered by technologies from CGI-AMS and Ariba Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif.
Virginia hired CGI-AMS in 2001 to design and implement a new online procurement system that makes purchasing faster and easier. The state has since used the portal to process more than 1 million orders for $10 billion in goods and services.
Before creating the new system, Virginia had 171 agencies, institutions and other public entities using a variety of desktop applications, automated purchasing systems and manual processes for procurement. The patchwork system did not allow information-sharing or joint purchasing, according to state and company officials.
Ethan Butterfield is a staff writer for Government Computer News'
sister publication, Washington Technology.