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City Clerk Document No.  
 
 
 
 
City Council Meeting Date: July 18, 2024  
 
 
AMENDMENT TO CITY OF CHANDLER AGREEMENT 
ERP ANALYSIS PROJECT 
CITY OF CHANDLER AGREEMENT NO. 4613 
 
THIS AMENDMENT NO. 1 (Amendment No. 1) is made and entered into by and between the City of 
Chandler, an Arizona municipal corporation (City), and Mercer US, LLC (Consultant), (City and Contractor 
may individually be referred to as Party and collectively referred to as Parties) and made  
 
 , 
2024 (Effective Date). 
 
RECITALS 
 
WHEREAS, the Parties entered into an agreement conduct an ERP analysis project (Agreement); and 
 
WHEREAS, the term of the Agreement was an estimated fourteen months from the start date agreed 
upon between the Parties; and 
 
WHEREAS, the Parties wish to amend the Agreement through this Amendment to increase the Scope 
of Services and extend the Agreement. 
 
AGREEMENT 
 
NOW THEREFORE, the Parties agree as follows: 
 
1. 
The recitals are accurate and are incorporated and made a part of the Agreement by this 
reference.    
 
2. 
The Parties agree to amend the Scope of Services of the original Agreement to include the 
services described in Exhibit A, attached to, and made part of this Amendment by reference. 
 
3. 
Section III: The term of the original Agreement is extended through March 30, 2025. 
 
4.  
Section IV: The Parties agree that the fees are increased in the amount of $453,600, for a revised 
total amount not to exceed $978,640. 
 
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5.
All other terms and conditions of the Agreement remain unchanged and in full force and effect.
If a conflict or ambiguity arises between this Amendment No. 1 and the Agreement, the terms
and conditions in this Amendment No. 1 prevail and control.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have entered into this Amendment on the Effective Date. 
FOR THE CITY 
FOR THE CONTRACTOR 
By: _________________________________________ 
By: _________________________________________ 
Its:                             Mayor 
Its: _________________________________________ 
APPROVED AS TO FORM: 
By: _________________________________________ 
City Attorney 
ATTEST: 
By: _________________________________________ 
City Clerk 
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Tanya Carpenter, Partner

EXHIBIT A TO AMENDMENT 
SCOPE OF SERVICES 
 
Projects Overview 
 
1. The Consultant will provide support in the following work tracks (see details below):  
a. Proposal Review Services 
b. Additional Big Rocks Session: Workforce Management & Historical Data Conversion 
c. Deployment Readiness  
2. Description of Consultant responsibilities: As described in more detail below under “Services to be 
Provided”. 
3. Description of city responsibilities: Provide focused ERP bids for review, provide relevant data and 
documents in a timely fashion as agreed upon, attend meetings/calls, review draft materials and 
provide feedback, as needed. 
4. Period of time over which work will be performed: 
Services commence upon the execution of this SOW ("Effective Date") and continue through January 
31, 2025 ("Initial Term"). In order to be able to assist the Client as requested and for accounting 
purposes, this SOW will remain valid through March 30, 2025 or mutually agreed upon date. 
 
Project Details 
 
1. Project name: Proposal Review Services 
Period of time over which work will be performed: Services commence on June 25, 2024, and 
continue through July 31, 2024 ("Initial Term"). In order to be able to assist the city as requested and 
for accounting purposes, this SOW will remain valid through August 30, 2025, or mutually agreed 
upon date. 
 
Description of Consultant responsibilities: The Consultant will provide additional support during the 
selection process for the ERP Replacement at City of Chandler. Specifically, the Consultant will: 
• 
Analyze the submitted bids of up to 6 ERP vendors for the posted RFP (please note additional 
options in Optional Additions)  
• 
Provide a breakdown of the vendors, aligning the vendor capability by suitability for City of 
Chandler’s RFP requirements and long-term ERP replacement goals 
• 
Work with the City to determine no more than 3 ERP vendors to be reviewed and proceed to the 
next phase of the selection process (please note additional options in Optional Additions) 
• 
Provide scorecard aids for review and revise as needed for demo evaluation by City of Chandler 
• 
Deliver a report-out of observations and insights to decision-makers at City of Chandler to review 
and finalize vendor demo decision. Socialize to stakeholders as needed 
• 
Prepare questions for reference checks 
 
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Services to be Provided 
 
Phase 
Consultant Services and Deliverables 
Analyze Bids 
Activities 
● 
Access/Receive bid documents from all bidders on the open RFP for 
ERP platforms 
● 
Create a framework including persona experiences for analyzing the 
bids by level of competitiveness with City of Chandler RFP 
requirements. Provide justification for inclusion/exclusion of each in 
the ongoing bid process 
● 
Create scorecard aids for committee use and review as needed for 
demo evaluation by City of Chandler 
● 
Work with the City to identify the top 3 vendors to be analyzed in 
more depth through demonstrations to the City of Chandler team and 
invited to proceed to the next round 
Deliverables 
• 
Analysis framework and consolidated summary of vendors’ 
capabilities 
Report Out and 
Advise 
Activities:  
● 
Produce consolidated analysis in presentation format (PowerPoint) for 
use in decision-making meeting(s) 
● 
Attend and present results in meeting with City of Chandler RFP 
decision-making team 
● 
Present to other stakeholders in up to 2 additional meeting sessions 
as required by City of Chandler for socialization purposes 
Deliverables 
• 
Final vendor capability summary presentation materials 
• 
Backup analysis and aids leveraged for recommendation materials 
based on received bids 
 
Optional Additions  
• 
Separate HR and Finance (up to 3 each): If the City of Chandler decides to separate HR and 
Finance, the cost of analyzing the submitted bids for up to 3 each and recommendation of 2 
each will be $40,500. This cost will be invoiced separately.  
• 
Additional Vendors: If more than 6 ERP vendors are identified, the cost of analyzing each 
additional vendor will be $5,775 each. These costs will be invoiced separately.   
• 
Separate HR and Finance (up to 6 each): If the City of Chandler decides to separate HR and 
Finance, the cost of analyzing the submitted bids for up to 6 each and recommendation of 3 
each will be $76,600. This cost will be invoiced separately.  
 
Assumptions 
This proposal assumes all required bidding materials can be extracted/shared with the Consultant 
team for analysis by authorized members of the City of Chandler bid team. Any needed 
communication with vendors will be channeled through the city Procurement Manager. Consultant 
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resources will require access to the City of Chandler RFP team for consultation and prioritization 
conversations during the Analyze Bids phase to ensure alignment. 
If the city determines an alternative number of bids beyond 3 is required for the shortlist, or if a 
different mix of ERP and specialist solutions might need to be considered, the city will consult with 
the Consultant team and the Consultant will update the Read-Out materials accordingly. 
 
2.  Project name: Additional Big Rocks Session: Workforce Management & Historical Data 
Conversion 
Period of time over which work will be performed: Services commence upon the execution of this 
SOW ("Effective Date") and continue through October 31, 2024 (“Initial Term"). In order to be able to 
assist the Client as requested and for accounting purposes, this SOW will remain valid through 
March 30 2025, or mutually agreed upon date. 
 
Program Objectives: The objective of this project is to include two additional Big Rock Sessions 
focused on Workforce Management and Historical Data Conversion, Archival, and Retention 
Strategy. These sessions aim to enhance project success by providing the team with knowledge and 
skills for effective resource allocation, alignment around future state workforce management 
activities and planning for seamless historical data transfer. By incorporating these sessions, we aim 
to understand current state workforce management practice, gain on alignment on future state and 
ensure alignment around historical data conversion and archival. 
  
Phase  
Consultant Services and Deliverables  
Big Rocks Sessions   
 
 
Services:  
• 
Conduct and Deliver (2) Big Rocks Workshops (up to 4 hours each) to align 
on critical foundational decisions related to the Workforce Management 
and Historical Data Loads  
• 
Conduct up to 4 hours of Workforce Management SME listening sessions 
to expand on current understanding to scheduling & timekeeping 
practices 
 
Deliverables:  
• 
Big Rocks decision summary   
• 
Consolidated summary of findings from listening sessions   
• 
Incorporation of Big Rocks decisions into ERP implementation plan and 
roadmap  
 
3.  Project name: Deployment Readiness  
Period of time over which work will be performed: Services commence upon the execution of this 
SOW ("Effective Date") and continue through January 31, 2025 ("Initial Term"). In order to be able to 
assist the Client as requested and for accounting purposes, this SOW will remain valid through 
March 30, 2025, or mutually agreed upon date. 
 
Description of Consultant responsibilities: The Consultant will provide support in the following work 
tracks, including Governance, Resource & Sustainment Planning, Design New Service Delivery Roles 
& Knowledge Strategy, Process & Experience Mapping and Interface & Data Strategy. Specifically, 
objectives of workstream include:  
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• 
Governance, Resource & Sustainment Planning: The objective of this track is to begin the 
education process around foundational topics in ERP implementation and make some early 
decisions on how to run the ERP implementation program, focusing on roles, responsibilities 
and anticipated staffing and talent needs. 
• 
Process & Experience Mapping: Capture current state experiences & opportunities for top 6 
prioritized processes and enable human-centered capabilities in CoC team to continue to 
identify additional processes to document leveraging advisory support from the Consultant. 
• 
Design New Service Delivery Roles & Content Management Strategy: Leveraging 
opportunities noted in process & experience mapping define future state roles to reduce hand-
offs and duplication of work in prioritized processes.  Create a defined Content Management 
Strategy to support change and establish foundation for future state content management. 
• 
Job Architecture & Chart of Accounts Recommendations: Prepare CoC to understand gaps 
in current data and recommendations to prepare to load data to new ERP to capitalize in future 
phases.  Review existing job architecture data and chart of accounts against best practices and 
future state needs through facilitated workshops.  Provide recommendations on future design 
discussion to support deployment. 
• 
Interface Scope & Strategy: Interfaces have been identified, and CoC should proactively think 
about what integrations will be needed in the future state and how to approach building and 
maintaining those integrations.  Integrations are a big driver of costs for both the solution 
vendor as well as the solution implementer (SI) and should strategically defined for future state 
needs. 
 
Services to be Provided 
 
Phase 
Consultant Services and Deliverables 
Governance, 
Resource & 
Sustainment 
Planning 
Activities 
• 
Governance education and best practice sharing 
• 
Governance working session (up to 4 hours) to align leadership 
around new ways of working to ensure resources and prioritization 
for ERP deployment 
• 
Scenario walking of key decisions to support program efficiency and 
practice new ways of working 
• 
Resource and sustainment planning sessions (up to 4 1-
hour sessions) 
Deliverables 
• 
Governance model designed to support new ways of working 
• 
Scenarios documented for decision-making 
• 
Addition of success measures to Digital Vision 
• 
Program organization, work tracks, and identification of backfill needs 
for deployment 
• 
Recommended future state sustainment model and identification of 
head count & capability needs 
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Process & 
Experience Mapping   
Activities 
• 
Kick-off to share approach and education on journey & experience 
mapping 
• 
Working sessions to validate and map prioritized processes: up to 12 
hours of meetings 
 
Deliverables 
• 
Defined process mapping approach 
• 
Schedule for process documentation & validation during deployment 
• 
Experience maps for prioritized processes with identified 
opportunities 
Design New Service 
Delivery Roles & 
Content 
Management 
Strategy 
Activities 
• 
Conduct and Deliver Service Delivery & Content Management Strategy 
Workshop (up to 2 hours each) leveraging findings and opportunities 
from strategy work to align on recommendations for service delivery 
decisions & future-state content management principles 
• 
Train-the-trainer on creation of future state functional roles & 
responsibilities and handoffs 
Deliverables 
• 
Start, Stop, Continue for roles supporting employee facing services 
• 
Template and example of future state roles & responsibilities 
• 
Content management strategy for workforce facing content including 
audience scope definition and needs, communication preferences, 
content structure, ownership and management roles & 
responsibilities 
• 
Knowledge Inventory Template for use in the creation of current state 
knowledge inventory and categorization for future actions 
• 
Proposed rollout plan and activities required to bring Service Delivery 
and Content Management Strategies to life 
Job Architecture & 
Chart of Accounts 
Recommendations 
Activities 
• 
Kick-off on education focused on job architecture components in 
future state ERP and facilitation of Chart of Accounts opportunities 
identified 
• 
Data request & review for job architecture and chart of accounts 
(including project and programs) 
• 
2 working sessions to review and validate data recommendations (up 
to 1.5 hours) 
Deliverables 
• 
Recommendations for job architecture changes to support future 
phase talent objectives 
• 
Recommendations for Chart of Accounts to accomplish management 
services objectives in future 
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Interface Scope & 
Strategy 
Activities 
• 
Conduct and Interface Strategy Workshop (up to 2 hours) to align on 
interface simplification principles 
Deliverables 
• 
Recommendations on future state integration approach & scope 
(Note: this will be done after vendor selection) 
 
Summary of Fees 
 
Proposal Review Services 
 
Professional Services  
$41,065 
Optional Additional Proposal Review Services 
 
Separate HR and Finance (up to 3 each) 
$40,500 
Additional Vendors (over 6) 
$5,775 each 
Separate HR and Finance (up to 6 each) 
$76,600 
Activation Big Rocks Support  
 
SOW TBD 
$27,000 
Deployment Readiness 
 
SOW TBD 
$275,000 - $350,000 
Estimated Total 
$418,065 
Travel and Other Expenses  
Reimbursable at cost, 
not to exceed $30,000 
 
Compensation for the services will be professional fees up to the amount of $453,600 or adjusted for 
total agreed upon professional fees. In addition to such compensation, the Consultant will also bill for 
necessary travel and other expenses related to the services. Invoices will be billed $59,723 monthly for 
seven months beginning July 19, 2024, or adjusted for total agreed upon professional fees. 
 
Travel and Expenses  
Consultant resources will provide the majority of support for this engagement remotely; if in-person 
collaboration is required, both the Consultant and the city will approve the travel in advance.    
 
The Consultant will follow the US General Services Administration (GSA) Travel Management Policy for 
all approved travel by Customer. If travel expenses should exceed the budgeted amount of $30,000.00, 
the Consultant and the city will both approve the travel in advance. Invoices for such Approved 
Expenses must be billed at cost without additional markup, itemized as applicable, and must be 
accompanied by information substantiating the Approved Expense.   
 
Subcontractors 
The Consultant may need to utilize various subcontractors (“Subcontractors”) in the course of its 
provision of the Services to assist in such tasks as printing and mailing, development of interactive tools, 
graphic design, etc. The city consents to the use of the Subcontractors and further acknowledges and 
agrees that the Consultant may provide such Subcontractors with city Confidential Information, 
including Work, on a confidential and a need-to-know basis for the purposes contemplated by this SOW. 
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, when providing Services to the city pursuant to this SOW, 
the Consultant may involve its Affiliates, from time to time, to assist in the performance of such Services. 
 
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