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Proposal for <br />Year 2000 Consulting Services <br />Orange County <br />6. Assess the financial and operational capabilities of the hazdwaze and software <br />vendors or developers to provide Yeaz 2000 processing capabilities, including: <br />• Compliance with the American National Standards Institute <br />• Presentation format <br />• Database format <br />• Data entry forms <br />• System generated forms <br />• Documentation <br />• Other considerations <br />7. Determine whether all affected applications will have Yeaz 2000 renovations <br />complete with testing well underway by December 31, 1999. <br />8. Identify the significant applications that will not have Yeaz 2000 renovation <br />complete by December 31, 1999. <br />9. Consider the effect to the County's strategic and operating plans should all <br />systems not be Yeaz 2000 compliant by December 31, 1999. <br />10. Idernify corningency plans to ensure the financial institution's ongoing operations <br />if its systems will not be Yeaz 2000 compliarn by December 31, 1999. We also <br />will consider contingency plans should hardware or software systems not function <br />correctly on January 1, 2000, because of the millennium date change. <br />11. Determine whether the County is coordinating modification and testing activities <br />with vendors, servicers, and organizations with whom critical data is received or <br />sent. <br />12. Establish a process to certify that a vendor(s), product(s) and future releases or <br />modifications aze Year 2000 compliant. <br />13. Determine how the County will maintain sound internal controls over the <br />software change process for Year 2000 issues. We will determine the need for <br />internal or external audit functions to assess the soundness of internal controls <br />associated with the Year 2000 effort. <br />14. Determine whether the County has adequate resources for the Yeaz 2000 initiative <br />by identifying: <br />• The type of technical expertise that will be needed <br />• The amount of time needed for corrective action <br />15. Assess the anticipated additional systems resources required specifically for <br />operating systems, telecommunications networks, and security software to handle <br />Yeaz 2000 processing. <br /> <br />® 1998, McGladrey Bt Pullen, r.i.P <br />