Bill Text: NY S01121 | 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 (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-11-29 - APPROVAL MEMO.25 [S01121 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01121-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1121--A
            Cal. No. 172
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens. FUNKE, GOLDEN, MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Energy
          and  Telecommunications  --  reported  favorably  from said committee,
          ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed
          by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,
          restored  to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
          its place in the order of third reading
        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:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (a) establishing the process for selecting vendors  for  participation
     2  in the iCenter, which shall be a public process;
     3    (b)  establishing  a  process  to  determine which technology needs or
     4  requirements shall be iCenter initiatives; and
     5    (c) establishing safeguards to ensure the iCenter does not function in
     6  a manner that results  in  the  circumvention  of  competitive  bidding,
     7  including but not limited to through single and sole source exemptions.
     8    3.  The  director  shall  conduct  an  outreach campaign informing the
     9  public of the iCenter and shall conduct specific  outreach  to  minority
    10  and  women-owned  business  enterprises  certified  pursuant  to article
    11  fifteen-A of the executive law, small businesses as such term is defined
    12  in section one hundred thirty-one of the economic development  law,  and
    13  service  disabled  veteran owned business enterprises certified pursuant
    14  to article seventeen-B of the executive law to inform such businesses of
    15  iCenter initiatives.
    16    4. Every October first, beginning in two thousand eighteen, the direc-
    17  tor shall submit a report to the speaker of the assembly, the  temporary
    18  president  of the senate, and the governor detailing iCenter initiatives
    19  undertaken in the prior year. Such  report  shall  include  but  not  be
    20  limited to: an identification of any resources used to support the iCen-
    21  ter  in  the  prior  year;  the number and nature of iCenter initiatives
    22  undertaken in the prior year; the identity of vendors that  participated
    23  in the iCenter in the prior year, any iCenter initiatives piloted in the
    24  prior  year  that  were subsequently awarded a procurement contract with
    25  any state agency; any future initiatives being considered for  inclusion
    26  in  the  iCenter; and an evaluation of the effectiveness of the iCenter.
    27  Such report shall be publicly posted on the office's website.
    28    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    29  have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed June 30, 2020.