NC E-Procurement is pleased to announce that we will be upgrading the Ariba Buyer software that serves as the foundation of NC E-Procurement @ Your Service. The upgrade will deliver benefits that will drive user satisfaction and improved business performance opportunities for the State of North Carolina. The upgraded NC E-Procurement @ Your Service application is expected to go live in July 2012.
The upgrade of NC E-Procurement @ Your Service is part of the Procurement Transformation project. The Procurement Transformation project was initiated by the Department of Administration upon direction from Governor Beverly Perdue’s Budget Reform and Accountability Commission (BRAC) and the 2010 General Assembly. To learn more, please visit the Procurement Transformation website.
Resources
Webinar
The NCAS “What’s New” training webinar was held on Tuesday, May 8th. We had over 400 participants across all State Agencies. If you were not able to attend the session in person, it has been recorded and posted below. Frequently Asked Questions from the webinar will be posted here shortly.
Postcards
As we are nearing the July go-live date for the NC E-Procurement upgrade, we are increasing the frequency of communications to users and project contacts. Please watch for more postcards with information to prepare for the NC E-Procurement upgrade.
Postcard #1 - April 27, 2012
Postcard #2 - May 4, 2012
Postcard #3 - May 11, 2012
Statewide Procurement Conference
Upgrade Job Aids
Session Briefings
Session briefings were held with Chief Procurement Officers and Chief Financial Officers of agencies, and EP Lite Administrators of community colleges and Local Educational Authorities (LEAs) from late August through mid March to review the key elements of the upgrade. The presentations reviewed at the briefings are included below for reference:
State Agencies
- August Session Briefing presentation
- October Session Briefing presentation
- December Session Briefing Presentation
- January Session Briefing presentation
- March Session Briefing presentation
School Systems
- August Session Briefing presentation
- December Session Briefing Presentation
- January Session Briefing presentation
- March Session Briefing presentation
Community Colleges
- August Session Briefing presentation
- December Session Briefing Presentation
- January Session Briefing presentation
- March Session Briefing presentation
NCID Frequently Asked Questions
As part of the NC E-Procurement upgrade, and pursuant to the Statewide IT Security standards and current IT plan, the State
will leverage NCID as the password authentication tool when logging in to the system. To be prepared for this move, we
have asked NC E-Procurement Administrators and NCID Delegated Administrators to confirm that all users needing access to
NC E-Procurement have an NCID. We have created Frequently Asked Questions for administrators to review when establishing NCIDs.
The Source Monthly Newsletter
Each month, the NC E-Procurement Upgrade team will publish a monthly newsletter, The Source, providing users with information about upgrade activities. An archive of the newsletters is listed below:
State Agencies
School Systems
Community Colleges
2011 SunPac Conference (LEAs)
On November 2nd and 3rd, the NC E-Procurement team presented at the 2011 SunPac Conference to school system users. The presentation listed below covered the progress of the upgrade, key initiatives and a system demo.