Los Angeles County As Vendor and Partner in the Electronic Recording Consortium of Counties

About the Program

Category: County Administration and Management (Best in Category)

Year: 2013

Faced with a requirement to substantially enhance the capabilities of SECURE, a vendor developed Electronic Document Recording System (ERDS) that is owned by the consortium of Orange County, Riverside County, San Diego County and Los Angeles County, two alternatives were evaluated: a $3,500,000 vendor proposal or a contract with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) for their internal programming staff to perform the system upgrade at a cost of $1,200,000. Following a discovery process, the consortium of counties chose Los Angeles County to provide the system upgrades by acting in the role of a vendor, not only for the sake of saving $2,300,000 but equally important to gain a more direct and responsive control of the capabilities of the SECURE electronic document recording system.