The Florida Senate

282.20  Technology Resource Center.--

(1)(a)  The Department of Management Services shall operate and manage the Technology Resource Center.

(b)  For the purposes of this section, the term:

1.  "Information-system utility" means a full-service information-processing facility offering hardware, software, operations, integration, networking, and consulting services.

2.  "Customer" means a state agency or other entity which is authorized to utilize the SUNCOM Network pursuant to this part.

(2)  The Technology Resource Center shall:

(a)  Serve customers as an information-system utility.

(b)  Cooperate with customers to offer, develop, and support a wide range of services and applications needed by users of the Technology Resource Center.

(c)  Cooperate with the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology to identify and facilitate interdepartmental networking and integration of network services for its customers.

(d)  Assist customers in testing and evaluating new and emerging technologies that could be used to meet the needs of the state.

(3)  The department may contract with customers to provide any combination of services necessary for agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and to serve their users.

(4)  The Technology Resource Center may plan, design, establish pilot projects for, and conduct experiments with information technology resources, and may implement enhancements in services when such implementation is cost-effective. Funding for experiments and pilot projects shall be derived from service revenues and may not exceed 5 percent of the service revenues for the Technology Resource Center for any single fiscal year. Any experiment, pilot project, plan, or design must be approved by the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology.

(5)  Beginning in the 2007-2008 fiscal year and annually thereafter, the Technology Resource Center shall submit to the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology for its review a copy of its current and proposed services and service rates and cost allocation plan. When appropriate, the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology shall request review and comment from the customers and Agency Chief Information Officers Council concerning the center's current and proposed rate and services structure.

History.--s. 3, ch. 94-226; s. 10, ch. 94-340; s. 12, ch. 97-241; s. 13, ch. 97-286; s. 48, ch. 99-13; s. 13, ch. 2000-164; s. 18, ch. 2001-261; s. 7, ch. 2007-105.