Notice of Intent to Extend Contract(s) Not Included in FY24 Annual Contracting Plan and Schedule
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Mayor will be entering into the following extension(s) of (a) contract(s) not included in the FY 2024 Annual Contracting Plan and Schedule that is published pursuant to New York City Charter § 312(a):
Agency: OTI
Vendor: ABRAHAMS CONSULTING
Description of Services to be Provided: The Senior DevOps Engineer #0283 supports applications that were part of the Application Modernization Initiative, including but not limited to NYC.ID, OTI CAPTCHA service, CityClerk, NYC.gov, and more. They work with appropriate Infrastructure/Cloud Services, Development, and Operations teams to help maintain and provision appropriate resources needed to operate applications using Azure DevOps pipelines and configure necessary Cloud components to improve site reliability and scalability. When required, the Senior DevOps Engineer works closely with other leads in the OTI Applications division to deliver operational enhancements to applications in a timely fashion and adhere to the OTI standards and processes with emphasis on code quality and security guidelines. Their tasks include engaging with the DevOps teams to provide continuous integration and continuous delivery support input for the maintenance of existing applications, ensuring deliverables from the development teams have proper information for deployment, working with Infrastructure/Cloud Services team to configure software stacks and required components in the Cloud environment, transitioning knowledge to the operations team, working closely with operations teams to apply best practices in Cloud engineering, building observability in the Cloud using all kinds of site reliability engineering tools to improve site reliability and scalability, clearly and thoroughly documenting all required processes and information in technical design documentation, and working with Operational and Project Managers to determine timelines and project tasks. This role is consulting services that work on the development of applications that are used by OTI, various city agencies, and the citizens of New York.
Anticipated Procurement Method: MWBE Extension
Anticipated New Start Date: 5/8/2024
Anticipated New End Date: 5/7/2025
Anticipated Modifications to Scope: None
Reason for Renewal/Extension: Continuity of service. The information needed for the FY24 LL63 renewal and extension plan was not available at the time the plan was published.
Job Titles: Integration Developer
Headcounts: 1
Agency: OTI
Vendor: RCI Tech
Description of Services to be Provided: The Application Operations Manager #0289 is responsible for managing a team supporting applications that were part of the Application Modernization Initiative, including by not limited to NYC.ID, OTI CAPTCHA service, CityClerk, NYC.gov, and more. The Application Operations Manager is responsible for leading a team that troubleshoots these applications, coordinating the deployment of patches and service upgrades as needed. Their tasks include overseeing the operational team and giving strategic direction to ensure maximum operational efficiency, serving as the day-to-day operational manager and adhering to OTI change & incident request processes, sending out daily communications including status, risks, issues, escalation, etc., performing overall operational coordination including management of resources, coordinating all documentation for projects and creating all deliverables defined by the Applications division, coordinating with various groups within OTI to ensure the successful completion of migrations to the test and production environments, leading the cross-team coordination of all pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment operational activities across the various teams, working with technical leads to address technical challenges/risks/issues that affect the operations of an application, and participating in operational afterhours on-call rotation as needed. This role is consulting services that work on the development of applications that are used by OTI, various city agencies, and the citizens of New York.
Anticipated Procurement Method: MWBE Extension
Anticipated New Start Date: 5/8/2024
Anticipated New End Date: 5/7/2025
Anticipated Modifications to Scope: None
Reason for Renewal/Extension: Continuity of service. The information needed for the FY24 LL63 renewal and extension plan was not available at the time the plan was published.
Job Titles: Application Operations Manager
Headcounts: 0
Agency: OTI
Vendor: Zaass LLC
Description of Services to be Provided: The Senior Quality Assurance Performance Tester #0280 tests the highly available and flexible agency applications following industry best practices, complies with OTI security standards, works collaboratively under the direction of test leads, and creates, executes, and reports results of performance tests for quality assurance automation to test various applications built under the Application Modernization Initiative. Their tasks include working with technical architects and developers to identify potential performance bottlenecks for each application subject to performance testing, working with business owners, business analysts and functional testers to identify application workflows, uses cases, and test cases that should be covered by performance testing scenarios, communicating to business owners, development teams, and technical architects the OTI policies and standards that applications should comply with to be accepted from a performance point of view, working with business owners to identify the load an application is expected to support, working with the performance test manager to determine the right tool for performance testing, developing performance test scripts covering selected business scenarios, identifying performance test types needed to verify application performance (stress, stability, breakpoint test, etc.) based on business needs and the nature of the product, identifying test monitoring points and support teams needed to help monitor the test, and opening change request and making sure all required support teams are available. This role is consulting services that work on the development of applications that are used by OTI, various city agencies, and the citizens of New York.
Anticipated Procurement Method: MWBE Extension
Anticipated New Start Date: 5/15/2024
Anticipated New End Date: 5/14/2025
Anticipated Modifications to Scope: None
Reason for Renewal/Extension: Continuity of service. The information needed for the FY24 LL63 renewal and extension plan was not available at the time the plan was published.
Job Titles: Performance Tester
Headcounts: 2
Agency: OTI
Vendor: ABRAHAMS CONSULTING
Description of Services to be Provided: The Web Content Management Ops Lead #0281 is responsible for supporting the City’s web content management system, TeamSite, that was upgraded in the Application Modernization Initiative. They are responsible for leading upgrade initiatives to improve the capabilities and security of both TeamSite and the associated websites it maintains such as www.NYC.gov and the City’s intranet. Their tasks include providing operational support of the TeamSite and LiveSite products in on-prem and Cloud environments, including responding to tickets opened, driving the upgrade and patching of TeamSite and LiveSite applications to ensure that the most up-to-date and secure versions of the software are used, maintaining Business Continuity and Disaster Recover design documentation, planning and implementation for cloud environments, enablement and supporting requisite insight and monitoring tools for TeamSite, LiveSite and related applications., building and configuring Azure DevOps pipelines to install/upgrade/patch TeamSite & LiveSite, deploying custom code and configuration to destination environments, and coordinating with various groups within OTI to ensure the successful completion of migrations to the test and production environments. This role is consulting services that work on the development of applications that are used by OTI, various city agencies, and the citizens of New York.
Anticipated Procurement Method: MWBE Extension
Anticipated New Start Date: 5/15/2024
Anticipated New End Date: 5/14/2025
Anticipated Modifications to Scope: None
Reason for Renewal/Extension: The information needed for the FY24 LL63 renewal and extension plan was not available at the time it was created.
Job Titles: Web Development Lead
Headcounts: 1
Agency: OTI
Vendor: ABRAHAMS CONSULTING
Description of Services to be Provided: The Quality Assurance Test Automation Engineer tests the highly available and flexible agency applications following industry best practices, complies with OTI security standards, works collaboratively under the direction of test leads, creates and executes continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for test automation deployment and modifies and runs automated tests used for quality assurance automation to test various applications built under the Application Modernization Initiative. Their tasks include working with project managers, business analysts, development teams, as well as the business customer to contribute to the process of gathering and reviewing requirements and ensuring that they are testable, participating in requirements elicitation and generation, reviewing project documents and providing QA comments and sign off, participating in development of the test approach based on established standards and the analysis of design documentation and requirements, contributing to the design of the following deliverables: Test Strategy & Test Plan, Detailed Test Cases, Test Scripts, Traceability Matrix, test estimates, progress reports for test execution, various defect, and statistical data reports, etc., assisting or executing manual functional testing where applicable, logging and assigning defects and keeping track of the defect status, working with developers and support teams to resolve defects and environment issues, loading and maintaining requirements and test cases, executing and tracking testing processes, assisting with development and execution of automated test scripts, and acquiring, creating, analyzing, and verifying test data. This role is consulting services that work on the development of applications that are used by OTI, various city agencies, and the citizens of New York.
Anticipated Procurement Method: MWBE Extension
Anticipated New Start Date: 5/22/2024
Anticipated New End Date: 5/21/2025
Anticipated Modifications to Scope: None
Reason for Renewal/Extension: Continuity of service. The information needed for the FY24 LL63 renewal and extension plan was not available at the time the plan was published.
Job Titles: Automation Engineer
Headcounts: 0
Agency: OTI
Vendor: Peer Consulting
Description of Services to be Provided: The Senior Data Engineer #0298 builds highly available, robust, concrete data pipelines and reporting solutions following industry best practices, adhering to OTI security guidelines, modifying, and running automated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines used for releasing code, and modifying and executing terraform modules for deploying infrastructure components, working collaboratively under the direction of OTI data engineering management and leads. Their tasks include having sound knowledge of Data Warehouses and LakeHouse concepts and practical implementation experience, building a framework of repeatable solutions and playbooks enabling efficient and predictable data pipelines, having hands-on development experience in the implementation of an agile, cloud centric data warehousing and reporting platforms with team members of various experience level, interacting with clients, both technical and non-technical stakeholders, handling relationships with end users, interacting regularly to gather feedback, listen to their issues and concerns, and recommend solutions, meeting critical deadlines and delivering in short sprints, ensuring successful delivery of new reports and dashboards as needed, maintaining and curating data documentation – including Architectural Decision Records (ADR), how-to guides, data lineage and ownership using Azure DevOps or similar tool, maintaining query performance and tuning to ensure cost optimization, participating in joint application development sessions with co-engineers and end users and being willing to brainstorm, and completing technical documentation and being willing to transfer knowledge as needed. This role is consulting services that work on the development of applications that are used by OTI, various city agencies, and the citizens of New York.
Anticipated Procurement Method: MWBE Extension
Anticipated New Start Date: 5/22/2024
Anticipated New End Date: 5/21/2025
Anticipated Modifications to Scope: None
Reason for Renewal/Extension: Continuity of service. The information needed for the FY24 LL63 renewal and extension plan was not available at the time the plan was published.
Job Titles: Senior Data Engineer
Headcounts: 3