US Courts

Carney provided the Administrative Office of the US Courts with a software tool to guide US District Court and US Bankruptcy Court officials through creating and printing Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and amendments for court reporting services. This tool replaces a complex, tedious, and error-prone manual process.

This product has resulted in time savings for the court officials who create RFPs and for the US Courts Procurement Management Division staff who previously needed to provide training, consultation, and error correction services.

The interactive desktop application, titled Court Reporting Services RFP Generator, is downloaded to users' workstations from the US Courts network. Enabled by Adobe Acrobat, the application asks users a series of questions and, based on responses, dynamically generates a fully customized RFP document in PDF format, including completed solicitation forms. Internal Help screens explain how to use the intuitively designed tool.

Business rules within the tool catch and correct errors and inconsistencies before the RFP document is generated. To support internal review processes at the courts, the electronic documents can be emailed to others for editing and approval.

Carney previously created a similar product for the US Courts, a Treatment Services RFP Generator, used by probation officers to issue solicitations for medical treatment for their clients.