BCCS

Here to serve your Telecommunications and Information Technology (IT) business needs.

BCCS Mission Statement: To be a unified team that offers reliable and effective technology solutions to enable our customers to serve the people of the State of Illinois and achieve enterprise success.

The CMS / BCCS Services Catalog enables State of Illinois agencies to find IT hardware, software, and service solutions from an on-line catalog.

The bureau’s mission is to provide competitive statewide technology services to meet the needs of State agencies, boards and commissions and other constituents including local governments, public safety agencies, schools, libraries and hospitals.

The Bureau of Communications and Computer Services:

* Manages the planning, procurement, managing, maintaining, and delivering of voice, data, wireless, video, Internet, and telecommunications services to all state government agencies, boards, and commissions, and state supported institutions of higher education in Illinois, as well as other governmental and some non-governmental entities. As part of the Information Technology and Telecommunications Rationalization, BCCS centralized infrastructure functions previously devolved in certain agencies.

* Operates the Central Computer Facility, which provides mainframe processing systems and support for most state agencies.

* Manages the Illinois Century Network, a service that creates and maintains high speed telecommunications networks providing reliable communication links to and among Illinois schools, institutions of higher education, libraries, museums, research institutions, state agencies, units of local government, and other local entities providing services to Illinois citizens.

BCCS provides voice, data, wireless, video, Internet, and telecommunications services to all state government agencies, boards, and commissions, as well as many schools and universities, libraries, hospitals and local governmental bodies across Illinois. The bureau also manages high-speed radio and wireless computer networks for use by Illinois public safety agencies.

Since 2003, BCCS has made significant progress in its multi-year effort to "rationalize" the State's Information Technology infrastructure - to coordinate and streamline the myriad communications systems used by State agencies.

For example, the bureau is working to reduce the number of disparate e-mail systems …