VITA Study (language only)

Item 29 #1h

Language
Page 17, after line 36, insert:"E.  The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) shall examine the quality, cost, and value of the services provided to state agencies and public bodies by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA).  This examination shall include the relationship between VITA and the Information Technology Investment Board, the procurement of information technology goods and services by VITA on behalf of other state agencies and institutions of higher education, the management of information technology projects by the agency's Project Management Division, and the role that VITA could perform, if any, in the governance and oversight of information technology maintenance and operations now under the purview of state agencies.  Technical assistance in the performance of this examination shall be provided to JLARC by VITA.  All agencies of the Commonwealth shall provide assistance to JLARC in conducting this examination upon request.  JLARC shall report its findings and recommendations by December 15, 2008."

Explanation
(This amendment requires JLARC to conduct a study of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA). This study is to be completed by December 15, 2008, and is to examine the operations of VITA, its services and the costs of those services to state agencies and other public bodies, and whether VITA could have any role to play in the governance of state agencies' information technology maintenance and operations functions.)