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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Ind. Courts - An update on the JTAC project

Our last entry on the Supreme Court's JTAC project was the end of June -- a list of ILB entries on the project to provide a "21st Century Case Management System for all Indiana trial court and clerks" is available here.

The latest edition of the Indiana Lawyer has a brief story that reports that the weeklong presentations by the three remaining vendors are over and now:

[R]eview teams including judges, clerks, court staffers, and technical and financial experts are examining the options where the finalist systems are being used. * * *

The selection process began in 2002, when the JTAC Case Management System Executive Committee and the JTAC Statewide governing board jointly recmmmended the process based on an automation sysytem.

A vendor was selected, Computer Associates, but the project "hit the wall" in 2005 -- see March 8, 2005 ILB entry. In Sept. of 2005 the contract with Computer Associates was terminated. Subsequently, the project was rebid and that is where we are now, nearly a year later. The Indiana Lawyer article concludes its report [my emphasis]:
Four years later, more companies were proven capable of creating such systems, some of which have been implemented in other states. Indiana is looking to those as examples and will travel to those places to examine systems already in place.
I understand that one of the places that will be examined is Tippecanoe County, which uses a Maximus CMS. The three remaining vendors are Tyler Technologies, Inc. (Texas), Computer Systems, Inc. (CSI) (Fishers), and Maximus – Justice Solutions Division (North Canton, Ohio). It is the ILB's recollection that several of these companies bid and lost out to Computer Associates in the original go-around.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 13, 2006 11:09 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts