Agency MNIT

Contractor Valere, LLC

SWIFT Contract Number 262201

Project Name Prevailing Wage System Modernization - Business Analyst

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Summarize purpose of the contract, including why it was necessary: The contract procured a business analyst to refine old and create new requirements for the Prevailing Wage project. This was needed in order to define the true scope of development work for the project.

Project Duration

Start Date Mon, 01/13/2025 - 00:00

Original end date Mon, 06/30/2025 - 00:00

Actual end date Mon, 06/30/2025 - 00:00

Did project finish on time? No

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Contract Amounts

Original contract: $84240

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Contract total $84240

Did project finish within budget? Yes

What was the funding source? State

Is this a sole source contract? No

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Evaluator Name Allison Steinmaus

Evaluator Email Address allison.steinmaus@state.mn.us

Evaluate the contractor's timeliness Contractor was consistently delayed in producing documentation and meeting deadlines.

Evaluate the contractor's quality Contractor produced quality work but was slow to produce it.

Evaluate the contractor's cost We did not receive the value expected for the cost of the contract.

Evaluate the contractor's overall performance Contractor had never produced requirements documentation apart from writing user stories. She seemed new at using Visio which is a core type of tool for a BA. She worked well with business but seemed to be new to office best practices (e.g. scheduling meetings in advance, not during lunch hour). She did not work with a sense of urgency. Requirements and user stories were left ambiguous and did not ask proper questions to get to the level of detail needed. Project struggled.

Would you engage the contractor's services again? No

Describe any negative action taken during the duration of this contract (i.e., termination, pursuit of suspension, etc.): Supervisor brought up the low satisfaction level to Valere, met with Valere repeatedly to try to improve the situation. Valere suggested swapping out the resource but at the time it seemed too late to do so. Valere met with resource to try to provide guidance on work but it did not result in completed deliverables.

Please rate the overall experience with the contractor 2 - dissatisfied