ABIS Project [September 2020]
The Rundown with Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit
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The Rundown with Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit
ABIS Project [September 2020]
Sep 02, 2020
Legislative Post Audit

As of June 30, 2020, we consider the Kansas Bureau of Investigation's Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) project to be in satisfactory status. The current Automated Fingerprint Identification System cannot be upgraded past 2022. ABIS will collect, store, and compare biometric data such as fingerprints to existing records for criminal justice and non-criminal justice purposes. Through the end of this quarter, the scope for ABIS is satisfactory: KBI completed its planning project to design and refine the requirements for the ABIS project. The Request for Proposal (RFP) and resulting contract award locked in the scope for the project. 
The schedule for the main project is satisfactory: The RFP was released later than originally planned, which has delayed the award deadline to early November 2020. This will start the execution phase and allow roughly 2 years to have a new system deployed by December 2022. The project cost for ABIS is satisfactory:  The planning project was on track and has been paid, and the cost estimate for the main project has been finalized. The legislature also appropriated necessary funding for the project. Lastly, the project security for ABIS is satisfactory because officials have included appropriate security requirements in the finalized RFP.