Title
Resolution authorizing a contract with Guidehouse, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, not to exceed $300,000 for a comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) assessment.
Staff Summary
• Guidehouse is a next-generation global consultancy with extensive commercial and public-sector expertise providing advisory, digital, and managed services to help clients outmaneuver today’s most difficult challenges.
• This assessment provides an unbiased, third-party evaluation of Lake County’s current capabilities and potential AI opportunities. It will identify gaps in infrastructure, skills, governance, and awareness ensuring a structured approach to adopting AI. This minimizes risks and maximizes ROI by aligning AI strategies with organizational goals.
• This engagement will focus on AI governance, data privacy and compliance, adoption risk evaluation framework, responsible use, roles and responsibilities oversight matrix, policy, guidelines and essential training required to move forward with the adoption of generative AI technologies at the County.
• This project will be funded within the 2024 Capital Improvement Program as part of the Technology Improvement Plan - Application Modernization & Innovation.
• In accordance with Section 33.115 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, a cooperative purchasing contract with Guidehouse, Inc. has been identified through Omnia Partners (Region 14-ESC - TX 14-13) to procure needed goods, services, construction, or professional services that have been competitively solicited and awarded.
• Omnia Partners competitively procured the services for strategic management consulting services through a Request for Proposal (RFP) that allowed multiple awards to qualified vendors. Omnia Partners received 13 proposals and identified four qualified vendors, of which Guidehouse, Inc. was awarded a contract.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Guidehouse is a next-generation global consultancy with extensive commercial and public-sector expertise providing advisory, digital, and managed services to help clients outmaneuver today’s most difficult challenges; and
WHEREAS, this assessment provides an unbiased, third-party evaluation of Lake County’s current capabilities and potential artificial intelligence (AI) opportunities. It will identify gaps in infrastructure, skills, governance, and awareness ensuring a structured approach to adopting AI. This minimizes risks and maximizes ROI by aligning AI strategies with organizational goals; and
WHEREAS, this engagement will focus on AI governance, data privacy and compliance, adoption risk evaluation framework, responsible use, roles and responsibilities oversight matrix, policy, guidelines and essential training required to move forward with the adoption of generative AI technologies at the County; and
WHEREAS, this project will be funded within the 2024 Capital Improvement Program as part of the Technology Improvement Plan - Application Modernization & Innovation; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 33.115 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, a cooperative purchasing contract with Guidehouse, Inc. has been identified through Omnia Partners (Region 14-ESC - TX 14-13) to procure needed goods, services, construction, or professional services that have been competitively solicited and awarded; and
WHEREAS, Omnia Partners competitively procured the services for strategic management consulting services through a Request for Proposal (RFP) that allowed multiple awards to qualified vendors. Omnia Partners received 13 proposals and identified four qualified vendors, of which Guidehouse, Inc. was awarded a contract.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this Lake County Board, that the Purchasing Agent is authorized to enter into a contract with Guidehouse for a comprehensive AI assessment.
DATED, at Waukegan, Illinois on November 12, 2024.