Florida’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) is in the midst of a procurement to replace its Florida Online Recipient Integrated Data Access system (FLORIDA), a 20-year-old legacy mainframe that provides core functionality for DCF’s public assistance eligibility system, the Automated Community Connection to Economic Self Sufficiency (ACCESS) Florida system.
With multiple upgrades performed in the past to improve the functionality of FLORIDA, DCF determined that the existing mainframe architecture was no longer adequate to serve the needs of the overall ACCESS Florida system and that a replacement was the most viable option. The new FLORIDA system will be based on Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) 2.0 standards and will meet federal standards for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Enhanced Funding Requirements: Seven Conditions and Standards, as well as enable system access through mobile technologies for both internal and external users. Meeting CMS’ Seven Conditions and Standards is required for Florida’s human services programs to piggyback on limited-time enhanced 90/10 federal funding for updating state IT systems, available until December 31, 2015 through the A-87 Cost Allocation Waiver.
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