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SUNY Campuses Coming Together
on a Unified DLE.

Timeline

SUNY’s system-wide contract for its Learning Management System expires on December 21, 2022, following execution of a full three-year contract term and two available one-year extensions with its current vendor. Given the size of the contract, SUNY was required to develop and broadly disseminate a Request for Proposals to identify a vendor for the subsequent contract.

The RFP development and review process was intentionally consultative and collaborative, beginning in earnest in November of 2018. Nearly 70 distance learning professionals and over 800 faculty from across 57 campuses participated in the initial survey and interviews, and more than 40 faculty and staff from 15 different campuses participated in the RFP review process which included day-long presentations from the most highly rated vendors.

The timeline below showcases the many facets of the RFP process. In development is a second timeline, mapping out work post contract approval.

Fall 2022

January 12, 2022
Cohort 4: January 2023 to December 2023

Summer 2022

January 12, 2022
Cohort 3: September 2022 – August 2023

Spring 2022

January 12, 2022
Cohort 2: May 2022 – April 2023

Winter 2022

October 20, 2021
Cohort 1: January/February 2022 – December 2022

Fall 2021

September 20, 2021
  • Contract approved (9/24/2021)
  • Restricted period ends
  • Planning with D2L begins
  • Planning for training program begins
  • Campuses surveyed on tools integration
  • Campus volunteers sought for Camus Implementation Team, Technical Implementation Team, and work groups focused on training and template development