Q: What is the project’s recommendation for Binti counties whose contract agreements end before the CWS‑CARES Go‑Live date?
A: Beginning with All County Letter (ACL) 18-47, CDSS has been encouraging counties to include early termination language in their contracts for external systems to enable them to decommission duplicative functionality when required. The state encourages counties to work with their contract and procurement offices to incorporate language into any vendor contracts for external systems that may allow them flexibility to modify and/or terminate contracts as appropriate as the statewide functionality is developed and fully implemented in the CWS-CARES. Decommissioning of Binti or moving it to a read-only status is required at the time of V1 Go-Live, scheduled for October 26, 2026. If the county has chosen to move the software to a read-only status, counties should consider how long their internal contract amendment processes take and determine when to initiate that process to accomplish a read-only status by October 26, 2026.