Description
North Dakota’s Retirement & Investment Office (RIO) is seeking vendors to provide a cloud‑based financial accounting system (Category A) to replace Microsoft Dynamics GP and a data‑repository/analysis platform (Category B) for investment‑operations reporting. The work includes full‑lifecycle implementation, integration with PeopleSoft, Northern Trust custodial feeds, and Sagitec Neospin, as well as seven‑year maintenance, support, and optional hosting. Vendors must submit detailed technical and cost proposals, meet rigorous security (FedRAMP/StateRAMP) and authentication (Azure AD/B2C) requirements, and provide extensive documentation, training, and warranty support.
• Category A: General ledger, fund accounting, AP/AR integration, GASB‑compliant reporting, migration from legacy GP.
• Category B: Scalable data lake/warehouse, daily data ingestion, reporting dashboards, AI/ML optional features, and long‑term hosting.
• Mandatory deliverables: kickoff, planning, gap analysis, design, interfaces, testing, training, implementation, post‑implementation reporting, and final acceptance.
• Evaluation: 85 pts technical (minimum 55 pts) + 15 pts cost; lowest price receives full cost points.
• Security: Must support Azure AD/B2C authentication, host under nd.gov domain, provide FedRAMP/HITRUST/StateRAMP evidence, and maintain 99.9 % availability with defined SLAs.