Information is hereby requested for the following: appointment of financial management system solution, related implementation and support services. Objectives and scope: Considering the challenges, the GCETC’s Request For Information is to: • Identify appropriate suppliers who can respond to an FMS solution RFP should the GCETC send out an RFP at a later stage; • Gather current market information for future implementation of a cloud based; • FMS to serve as the vertical business capabilities’ solution within the nine (9) Colleges; • Gather information on the suppliers available in the South African market; • Consider the degree to which commercially available FMS solutions are likely to meet the CETC’s business requirements; • Obtain representative cost estimates for cloud-based FMS solutions, including licensing/subscription fees, implementation and relates services fees, annual maintenance and support costs, hosting fees, and other recurring costs that can be used for budgetary and planning purposes; • NB: Bidder must include different representative costs indicating costs differences for an FMS solution hosted on GCETC private cloud versus hosting the solution on the bidder’s cloud; • Determine the critical success factors for implementation of a cloud-based FMS solution for the nine (9) CETC’s; • Obtain planning estimates appropriate for the implementation, management, and maintenance of a cloud-based FMS solutions, as well as recommended FMS programme approach inclusive of: Readiness assessment; • Management of overall Programme and related projects; • Business Process Redesign (including performance metrics); • Requirements gathering and analysis; • End-to-end Design (including Interfaces); • Software Configuration and Development; • Implementation (pilots and rollouts); • Solution Testing; • Data Migration (including data cleansing); • Change Management and; • Operationalization (incl. Maintenance and Support). Providers are encouraged to consider the CETC’s size in their responses. The CETC consists of nine (9) Colleges which have satellites throughout the country. The nine (9) Colleges are as indicated below: 1. Eastern Cape CET College; 2. Free State CET College; 3. Gauteng CET College; 4. KZN CET College; 5. Limpopo CET College; 6. Northern Cape CET College; 7. Northwest CET College; 8. Western Cape CET College. (Tender №94354995)