Agency Revenue Dept

Contractor Baker IT

SWIFT Contract Number B38621/16406

Project Name Java Developer - staff aug

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Summarize purpose of the contract, including why it was necessary: develop and support taxation related electronic government services J2EE based applications. These include the processes of electronically filed or scanned tax returns and payments, bank reconciliation, processing support utilities, the bridging of data between multiple platforms and physical locations.

Project Duration

Start Date Mon, 10/02/2006 - 00:00

Original end date Mon, 10/01/2007 - 00:00

Actual end date Wed, 11/23/2011 - 00:00

Did project finish on time? Yes

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Contract Amounts

Original contract: $150000

Amendments $622800

Contract total $772800

Did project finish within budget? Yes

What was the funding source? agency

Is this a sole source contract? No

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Evaluator Name mary ann novotny

Evaluator Email Address mary.ann.novotny@state.mn.us

Evaluate the contractor's timeliness contractor (Ravindar Vangala) always very timely, not only in terms of attendance, but also in his assigned projects. In the event he had an issue that made it necessary for him to break his normal work schedule, he always notified DOR in advance and could plan the teams work schedule accordingly.

Evaluate the contractor's quality His work was excellent! He worked on our Electronic Processing application which processed over 3 million tax returns each year. He wrote all of the rules for acceptance and/or rejection of said returns. His rules were always accurate which is important as we don’t want to reject a taxpayer’s return needlessly, or accept bad tax return data, possibly resulting in fraudulent tax return monies being sent to the taxpayer.. He also worked on our eCRV (Electronic Certificate of Real Estate Value) project. His code was vital in bringing the eCRV application to Production. Ravi also produced meaningful code for our EDE (Electronic Data Exchange) application.

Evaluate the contractor's cost The rate charged by Baker IT for the services of Ravi were fair and in the ballpark charged by other contracting firms for comparable contractors.

Evaluate the contractor's overall performance could not be more pleased with the performance of Ravindar Vangala. He is fluent in Java and related web development technologies. He has vast knowledge of client/server, web development and database programing.

Would you engage the contractor's services again? Yes

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Please rate the overall experience with the contractor 5 - very satisfied