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4. Produce a User ~fanual for each of the acquired systems. S. Produce an Installation ~lanual for each software system for each installation. 7. Evaluate thelacquired software systems in a written report. Prominent features of each sustem will 'be discussed. In addition, transportability criteria are to be ascertained and documented as fully as possible. These required services would begin around February 1, 1978, and would be completed in the eight months ending around September 50, 1978. Potential Savings And/Or B~nefJts What kind of savings or benefits could a county expect to receive from participation in a consortium to acquire computer software? It would depend upon which of several options they elect to take and when the revaluation was required to be effective. Several examples of savings: Example 1: County wishes to acquire software but intends to use county employees for all phases of an in-house revaluation. Such counties are being quoted prices ranging from $2S,000 to $S0,000 for the right to use (not own) the software. Savings would be the difference between what they would be forced to pay to acquire such a system less their share of the cofisortium. Example 2: County wishes to acquire software now but revaluation is nor due for several years. Savings wnuld be in the revaluation contract provided county used the time between no*e and contract time to load data on computer. County personnel working in their slack times or CETA personnel could save as much as 25% of the revaluation cost by eliminating the hand sketching of buildings, computing areas, table look-ups, etc. and using experienced appraisers to visit the property rather than inexperienced listers. The appraiser would have a copy of the latest information available on the property and after his visit would only have to correct any wrong information rather than complete all parts of the present property record card. Land values and building values would still be based on human judgement but the adding machines and calculators would be obsolete. Example 3: County needs to start revaluation during 1978 and wishes to acquire software in conjunction with other counties primarily for security purposes. Savings would not be as great as in example'II because a traditional revaluation would still be necessary. How much a particular firm would reduce their bid price to install thexr system is an unknown factor at this point. It is common practice for a firm to recover their system development costs as soon as possible spread over the first few contracts. Firms will still attempt to recover those development cost§ when possible.