Title: CC11 Consultant Contract for JV Tech, Inc.

Recommendation:
I recommend award of the consultant contract with JV Tech, Inc. and authorize the Superintendent and Board Chairman to sign all needed documents.

Description:

CC11  The Consultant shall perform the following services: JV Tech, Inc. shall serve as an independent contractor for the BOARD, servicing the Educational Data Warehouse (EDW) in the following areas:

Function as a data administrator and provide technical expertise to the data warehouse team in the areas of extraction, translation and loading of data to EDW.

Provide weekly-customized hands-on training sessions.  Through the training and co-development with the Consultant, the DBA team will be able to fast track the addition of new data as well as streamline current processes of EDW.

Assist with extraction transformation and loading of new data to the EDW:

Additional Tests:
ACT (American College Test)
 CASAS (Adult ESOL Assessment Test)
 CELLA (New ESOL Assessment Test)
 DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy)
 SRUSS (School Readiness Uniform Screening Systems)
 
Additional Data:
Federal Program Information (Including, but not limited to, Migrant and Title 1 information)
 Mobility Counter (To show movement of students from one school to another within the same school year)
 Mastery Dates (For Graduation)

Develop procedures to process data records that do not meet expected format (e.g., typographical errors, invalid dates, rejected records).

Process most recent test results received to the EDW (FCAT SSS, FCAT NRT, FCAT Writes, SAT, SSS Diagnostic Tests and Common Assessments).

Assist the DBAs with performance tuning of the EDW database.

Create processes to further automate updating EDW with information from the Student System.

Create a formal training program on STRIVA (application used to capture changes in data within the Student System) to include bulk and daily processing, and the initialization of data captures.

The above referenced consultant has:

Expertise in the knowledge and use of DB2 and Cognos tools
Demonstrated success in producing data warehouse implementation and maintenance
Knowledge of local system and data structures
Demonstrated ability to work with district staff

Financial Impact:

Authorized Amount this Request: $131,250.00

Previously Authorized Amount Year-to-Date: $8,400.00

Total Authorized Amount if Request Approval $139,650.00

Fund Source:  Capital Funds
                    Consultant Services

For Additional Information, contact:

Joseph M. Moore, MooreJ@PalmBeach.k12.fl.us

Dr. Marc Baron, Chief of Performance Accountability

Attachments (list):
JV Tech, Inc. Contract.pdf
JV Tech, Inc. Beneficial Interest.pdf
JV Tech, Inc. New Evaluation.pdf
JV Tech, Inc. Previous Evaluation.pdf
JV Tech, Inc. Legal Checklist.pdf
JV Tech, Inc. Data Panel.pdf