This case examines issues in the appraisal and adoption of Internet technologies in a national US government circumstance, and describes in detail a pilot project to ascertain the feasibility of adopting an application service provider option to support procurement by multiple federal agencies using a number of distinct legacy transaction systems. The pilot evaluation of the Internet Payment Platform (IPP) by the eMoney group of the United States Treasury's Financial Management Service involved three federal agencies and subsets of their suppliers.
Managing The Internet Payment Platform Project Case Study Solution
Many benefits were seen by participants from their use of the IPP, but agreed that for full scale operation it needed to be altered to better fit the government procurement context. The project manager is weighing the advantages and disadvantages of conducting another pilot evaluation using the same commercial software before, or getting and customizing a brand new commercial package, or assembling a brand new system from scratch.
PUBLICATION DATE: December 01, 2007 PRODUCT #: JIT018-HCB-ENG
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