ITD’s Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) executes a number of activities to support and enhance project management, IT planning, portfolio management, project oversight and IT procurement requirements that are driven by a combination of legislative mandate, best practice competency, and the drive for continual improvement. To fund these activities, ITD charges a tiered EPMO fee on major IT projects when the project moves from the planning phase to the execution phase. A major IT project is any information technology project that is estimated to cost $500,000 or more.
The EPMO fee provides funding for activities such as
- Management of and updates to Statewide IT Planning processes
- Management of and updates to Statewide IT Portfolio processes (e.g., SITAC ranking, project exploration review processes)
- Updates to project management, planning and IT procurement standards and legislation
- Updates to project management, planning and IT procurement processes, templates and tools (e.g., SharePoint project management and collaboration site)
- Management of and updates to quarterly large project reporting processes
- Management of and updates to quarterly large project reporting tools and templates
- Large project oversight analyst (LPOA) assignments to major projects
- Enterprise analysis of project trends relating to IT planning, IT portfolio, and IT procurement
- Coordination of the state’s project management community of practice and Bismarck Project Management Institute (PMI) outreach chapter
The tiered fee structure for the 2015-2017 biennium
- $2,500.00/project for projects < $500,000*
- $7,500.00/project for projects > $500,000 and < $2,000,000
- $15,000.00/project for projects > $2,000,000 and < $5,000,000
- $25,000.00/project for projects > $5,000,000
* There are times when projects under $500,000, at the discretion of the CIO, are required to have an oversight analyst assigned. Examples may include unusually high risk projects, or projects that although estimated to be under $500,000, have a likelihood of running over the $500,000 mark when adjusted for risk factors.
The tiered fee structure for the 2017-2019 biennium
- $2,500 is charged for every $500,000 of project budget*
Additional Details and Scenarios:
- The fee is re-assessed each fiscal year (e.g., if a $500,000 project executes through two fiscal years it will be charged the $2,500 EPMO fee two times for a total of $5,000 in EPMO fees)
- There is a $25,000 cap per fiscal year per “startup report submission”. What this means is the following:
- The EPMO fee is invoiced when a startup report is submitted to project oversight for presentation to the Legislative IT Committee (a.k.a., when a project moves from planning to execution)
- A “startup report submission” means turning in either a startup report for a major project, or an iterative startup/closeout report for a program or major project that is planning multiple deployments
- For iterative projects, each time a new iteration is baselined for the first time and the iterative startup/closeout report is submitted with the new baseline information an EPMO fee is charged
- In both of these scenarios the maximum EPMO fee that will be charged per fiscal year is $25,000. So whether you have a startup report that has one baseline with a $10M budget, or you have an iterative startup/closeout report that has seven baselines and a $50M budget, the maximum EPMO fee per fiscal year that is charged in either of these scenarios is $25,000
(*) If a project under $500,000 is being monitored via oversight the project fee is also $2,500.