B-52157 Sole Source Justification Form v.7.01 CB.pdf

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This is a Sole Source Justification Form for the State of Illinois Department of Health and Family Services (HFS) and Department of IT (DoIT) seeking to procure Precisely Software Incorporated's ACR Workbench and Finalist software solutions. The State intends to enter into a three-year term contract for maintenance, licensing, and technical support of these proprietary mainframe software products, with a contract period from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029. No renewals are included in this award. The justification document indicates that a public hearing notice was posted to the Illinois Procurement Bulletin on May 6, 2026, with a deadline for interested parties to submit written comments or request a public hearing by May 15, 2026, at 4:00 p.m.

The estimated value of the initial three-year term is $1,374,000, funded entirely through State funds. The State negotiated favorable pricing with annual increases of 6% for year one and 3% annual uplift for years two and three, projecting savings of approximately $75,000 by the end of year three compared to standard year-over-year increases. The justification establishes that Precisely Software is the sole vendor capable of providing these patented and copyrighted products, which have been customized for Illinois's mainframe environment (MMIS, MARS, and MEDI systems) and are critical to automating batch job balancing processes for the Medicaid management system. The State's purchase history demonstrates continuous reliance on these products since at least 2007, with prior contracts totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Denial of this sole source procurement would result in significant operational disruption and potential loss of revenue related to Medicaid claims processing and benefit payments.

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Sole Source Justification Form Version 7.01 Page of Sole Source Justification Form - Part I Section I - General Information Will this Sole Source amend a Professional or Artistic Services contract?

If yes, what was the original contract value?

*Sole Source may not be used for amendments for Professional or Artistic Services if the amendment would increase the value by more than 5% of the initial award or extend the term by more than 60 days.

Section II - Proposed Term If a Term Contract, does the term, including renewals, exceed 12 months?

If yes, provide a detailed justification including any economic benefit received for agreeing to a multi-year term:

Section III - Funding Source Select the type of funding to be used (Check all that apply):

Section IV - Sole Source Justification Are there secondary justification(s) for this sole source?

Section V - Purchase History Has the Agency or University Purchased these supplies or services in the past?

Term Term From Term To Value Description Contract Number Type Section VI - Business Rationale

1. Provide a detailed explanation of the need for the supplies or services:

2. Provide a list and describe in detail the specifications required to satisfy the need:

3. Provide detail explaining the justification selected in Section IV to explain why the requested supplies or services are the only ones available that can satisfy the agency or university requirements?

4. What are the unique features of the supplies or services that are not available in any other product or by any other vendor? Provide specific quantifiable factors/qualifications:

5. Has the Agency or University considered alternative supplies or services to satisfy their need?

5a. If yes, name the alternative vendors whose supplies or services were evaluated:

5b. If yes, what were the alternatives for each vendor and why were they unacceptable? Be specific with regard to features, characteristics, requirements, capabilities and compatibility:

5c. Explain how the market evaluation was conducted?

*This evaluation is to determine available options within a market. If the evaluation is to determine quality or best suited option, this is not the appropriate source selection. Under no circumstances shall the evaluation consist of testing alternative options. These activities must be conducted in a competitive transparent environment (i.e. IFB or RFP).

5a. If no, why weren't alternatives evaluated?

6. Are there resellers or distributors?

7. What efforts were made to get the best possible price (i.e. did the agency/university negotiate) and how did you determine the price for this purchase is considered fair and reasonable?

8. Will this purchase obligate the State to this vendor for future purchases such as maintenance, licensing or continuing need?

8a. If yes, please provide details regarding future obligations and/or needs:

9. What will be the financial or other impact to the State if this sole source is not approved and a competitive bid is required?

10. Is there any additional information you would like to add to justify this sole source?

Section VII Requesting Department Signature Required I know and understand the contents of this Sole Source Justification and attest that all statements are true and correct and the fairness and reasonableness of the price was adequately confirmed.

State Agency Bureau/Division Head or University Purchasing Director Approval and Signature Required I know and understand the contents of this Sole Source Justification and attest that all statements are true and correct and the fairness and reasonableness of the price was adequately confirmed. (All prior form fields will lock once this e-signature is completed) SPO Approval and Signature Required Sole Source Justification Form - Part II Section I - General Information Was a Sole Source hearing held per 30 ILCS 500/20-25?

Section II - Sole Source Hearing Details The State posted to the Illinois Procurement Bulletin a description of the State's need, the justification for the sole source decision, and information regarding the opportunity to submit comments and testify at a public hearing. Notice of the hearing was also posted outside of the hearing room 48 hours prior to the hearing.

The public hearing was conducted for the purpose of receiving testimony regarding the sole source determination. The Hearing Officer recommends the following:

The following relevant documents are attached:

Section III - CPO Approval and Signature Required 9.0.0.2.20101008.1.734229

BulletinNum: B52157
Requesting: DoIT - Dept of Health and Family Services
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Department: Health and Family Services
NeedIdentifiedDate: 2026-04-20
NeedbyDate: 2026-08-01
ProjectTitle: Sole Source - Precisely Software ACR Workbench and Finalist
ProjectTitle: SS - Precisely Software for ACR Workbench and Finalist FY 27
Vendor: Precisely Software Incorporated
Vendor: Precisely Software Incorporated
Description: Finalist Software offers the State a specialized address management solution. It is a USPS CASS-certified software designed to ensure that customer address data is accurate and ready for mass mailing.
ValueIs: Estimated
ValueofInitialTerm: 1374000.00000000
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ThisIsA: New Sole Source
One-Time:
Term:
BeginDate: 2026-08-01
EndDate: 2029-07-31
NumberofRenewals: 0.00000000
RenewalLength: 0.00000000
RenewalValue: 0.00000000
ExceedingYes:
ExceedingNo:
TextField3: The 3-year contract delivers the most favorable and predictable pricing over the full Term commitment. Years 2 and 3 carry only a 3% annual uplift each, which is significantly lower than the standard year-over-year increase associated with successive 1-year term(s) which is 6%.
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TextField4: '26 ACR Workbench and Finalist Sole Source
DropDownList1: Precisely Software is the only vendor that has the ability and expertise to support the licensing and source code for the Software for the purposes of maintenance services, including Software updates, enhancement, bug fixes, and standard technical support issues. If subscription services are applicable, the subscription data is manipulated by Supplier to operate with the proprietary nature of the Software and Supplier has been legally granted the rights by its third party suppliers to sub-license such data for use with Software.
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Q1Answer: Both ACR Workbench & Finalist are proprietary products utilized to automatically balance mainframe (IBM z/OS) batch jobs and results. Without the ACR products Enterprise Operations staff would need to stop processing batch jobs and manually perform balancing and reconciliation. This software is used throughout job cycles to balance job totals. When an application is out of balance, the schedule stops, the out of balance condition is corrected, and the schedule is continued. Prior to installation, the schedule would continue when the application was out of balance. This caused expensive returns and long delays in the completion of the applications. Precisely is the only vendor that can supply the required software because the software is patented or copyrighted and only available from holder of patent/copyright. These products have been used for many years to develop mission critical applications for several agencies. Migration of applications away from the ACR products would take substantial time and money to complete and is not viable at this time.
Q2Answer: 3 year term contract for maintenance on ACR Workbench Detail and ACR Finalist Summary for MVS software products:

ACR/Detail and ACR/Summary for MVS (MIPS MARS and MMIS NIPS capacity 1025) Currently, the State of Illinois holds 2 term licenses: One for ACR/Summary used by Dept. of Health and Family Services and the other for ACR/Detail used by Dept. of Human Services (DHS). CPU-based license with unlimited MIPS capacity on any single CPU.

Q3Answer: These Precisely products are utilized to automatically balance the results of mainframe batch jobs. Without the ACR products Enterprise Operations staff would need to stop processing mainframe jobs and manually perform the necessary balancing and reconciliation efforts. This is not only subject to error but extremely time consuming and impacts overall performance and uptime of the application. This software is used throughout mainframe job cycles to balance job totals. When an application is out of balance, the schedule stops, the out of balance condition is corrected, and the schedule is continued. Before this product was installed, the schedule would continue when the application was out of balance. This caused expensive returns and long delays in the completion of the application process. This software has been customized for the state of Illinois and the MMIS, MARS and MEDI environments making it 100 percent unique and the code that manages the above processes is proprietary to the vendor.
Q4Answer: ACR/Summary compares summary-level information such as record counts and totals across applications, files, databases, and reports.

Summary-Level Balancing: Balance record counts and totals across business applications and processes, Compares and balances data values from previous cycles and validates that correct files are being processed and there is no duplication.

ACR/Detail compares detail-level information such as field values and transactions across applications, files, databases, and reports, Validates records and field values across business applications and processes, and Compares information at multiple levels of roll-up to detect errors at the appropriate level of granularity and Compares incoming data to suspense items to complete reconciliations over multiple cycles.

As stated previously these have been customized for the SOI environment via Mainframe application development.

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Q5aAnswer: Aside from Precisely Software being the only vendor with compatible proprietary source code licensing for mainframe, a long term solution or alternative ,which the State is currently assessing Cloud based solutions, will require a graduation to a platform likely needing years to on-board. Today, it’s not understood what solution is or how long the transition will take, thus its not feasible economically or operationally to migrate from this product to an entirely new modernized Cloud Platform. The process of replacing these applications is not accomplished quickly or easily and requires significant funding , planning and staff resources. It involves changes to business processes and methodologies; a complete redesign of applications; significant investments in software, IT hardware and infrastructure, training; full-time commitment of staff resources to complete; and continued maintenance and support of the existing system during the conversion.
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Q6Yes:
Q6No:
Q6NA:
Q7Answer: A series of discussions counter offer / negotiations were held while centering in the annual uplift average of 7% being the goal to beat. We not only beat the 7% average by a full point. but we locked in the annual increase 6% for year 1 (a $25K plus spend from FY 25) and identified the budgeted amount for '27-'29 with 3.86% increases respectively ($17K per year). By the end of year 3, the State will saved a projected $75K.
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Q8n:
Q8aAnswer: As with previous single year awards for these products, until the current business applications that are dependent on the Precisely Software for critical business functions are no longer required, DoIT and the other user agencies must continue subscription, maintenance and support. DoIT continues to utilize Application Rationalization for all applications and systems under the Executive Branch to quantify the usage of various applications along with vendor product dependencies. These efforts will continue to allow the State of Illinois to make better decisions about future procurement initiatives that should be more competitive in nature.
Q9Answer: HFS - Enterprise Operations relies heavily on both ACR software products to automate batch job balance processes. If this procurement is denied, production batch processes will be adversely affected by the MMIS and other applications. MMIS is the Medicaid management system which processes claims, payments, as well as provides validation, confirmation of provider and recipient information, pharmacy and NIPS claims processing as well as interfacing with the MARS system. (medical and reporting system) If ACR is not renewed the economic impact would be long term downtimes of the MMIS system and delays in processing and providing medical services and payments to the SOI citizens resulting in potentially several million dollars of lost revenue.
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TextField63: Michael Cummings
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Approve:
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Comments:
Phone: 217-720-6643
Date: 2026-04-28
PN: David Papp
Email: David.Papp@Illinois.gov
InitialPostingDate: 2026-05-06
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