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RFI-ENGAGEMENT SERVICES FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM AND IMPLEMENTATION 1. 1.1 BACKGROUND The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is the autonomous entity of the Government of Panama responsible for the operation, administration, maintenance, and modernization of the Canal, following its transfer from the United States of America to the Republic of Panama on December 31, 1999. In the following years, the ACP was transformed into an organization focused on delivering results and profitability, resulting in significant investments in training, development and technology. Today, the Canal is presented with new challenges and opportunities, defined by a sustained increase in international trade and the greater demand for the Panama transit route where its information, electronics and telecommunication systems (IT) play an important role as it executes the expansion program that will provide a new third-set of locks, increasing the Canal´s capacity by 2015. The Canal’s IT infrastructure serves diverse business functions such as marine traffic, finance, human resources, energy and water utilities among others. The core maritime transit operations and related services are supported by Marine Traffic Control systems, locks machinery control systems, positioning systems, and telecommunication services. Some of these systems are commercial off the shelf (COTS), while others are developed in-house or outsourced based on different kinds of technologies. There is a need for these systems to share information through different means, but as new business requirements evolve, this has become more difficult to maintain. In order to achieve business agility while reliably supporting its current operation, the ACP is adopting an Enterprise Architecture approach for Business/IT alignment, and implementing a BPM/SOA Suite. ACP is looking for technological flexibility to modernize the way its systems are architected, designed and built to be ready when the expansion program and the new set of locks are completed. It is important for ACP to improve its technology capabilities in terms of agility, flexibility and resiliency to respond timely in enabling new business capabilities, developing new products and services, and other business innovations. This new way of doing IT must also be efficient, operational and maintainable for the information systems to achieve higher levels of integration and interoperability. Additionally, support for web-service and mobile technologies, security, multi-platform environments, and point-to-point integration will play a key role in this enterprise transformation. As a first initiative, ACP completed a four (4) months SOA IT Readiness Assessment and Roadmap to provide a better understanding of the current situation and, consequently, Non-binding RFI (Request for Information) 4 ACP RENOVA Program
RFI-ENGAGEMENT SERVICES FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM AND IMPLEMENTATION established the basis for the development of a phased SOA adoption and modernization plan to adapt software, people and processes to a service orientation by delivering early, measurable, and incremental business benefits while avoiding major disruptions. The ACP expanded the initial limited scope from SOA, and is currently carrying out an RFI to gather information regarding Enterprise Architecture (EA) adoption, the implementation of an EA Center of Excellence, and BPM/SOA analysis, design, build and implementation services. 1.2 PURPOSE This Request for Information (RFI) has been issued for the purpose of gathering information on feasible services and alternatives to achieve the following objectives: 1. Adopt EA in the Panama Canal including the establishment of an EA Center of Excellence that supports the EA practice 2. Assessment and definition for core business processes using a “Top-Down” and “Middle-Out” approach 3. Analysis, detailed design, development and implementation of business processes and BPM/SOA solutions pertaining transit requests, reservation management and pre-arrival assessments for the Canal´s maritime services (“Solution Project 1”). It is expected that interested parties provide general information as requested in section 2.4. The information required, and all information exchanged herein shall be treated as confidential and shall not be disclosed to any person or entity and is only for internal use of ACP. The publication of this RFI does not represent a commitment to enter into a contract with participants, nor does it imply a decision to purchase nor does it constitute and obligation or commitment of any sort. The non-proprietary information collected through this RFI is of non-binding nature and could be used as input material to prepare an RFP to be published by ACP as a public bid within the next three months. 2. In January 2012, the Canal hired third-party services to conduct a 4-month SOA IT Readiness Assessment in collaboration with its newly formed IT Transformation Team. This assessment was focused on a SOA adoption using a BOTTOM-UP approach where existing systems functionality was discovered and conceptual services were identified. However, in order to fully comply with the ACP business goals and strategy, it will be Non-binding RFI (Request for Information) 5 ACP RENOVA Program
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