Bureaus
The Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS) consists of the following bureaus:
Bureau of Administrative Operations
The Bureau of Administrative Operations oversees the general management of the agency. The different areas of administrative management include the following:
- Director's Office
- Legal Services
- Governmental Affairs
- Internal Audit
- Budget Planning, Expenditure Control, Accounting, and Financial Reporting Units
Bureau of Information Services
The many critical functions related to the Bureau of Information Services are centered on all media of communication both within state government and external to state government. A list of core services provided is as follows:
- Media Relations
- Graphic Design
- Daily news feeds for radio stations
- Study and location photography and video services
- Satellite uplink/downlink system for live audio and video feeds
- Multimedia content for computer and Internet use
- Daily news clip services (prepares and distributes news releases)
- Daily news clip services (prepares and distributes news releases)
- Editorial and press summary services
- Printing services, contract printing services
- Mail and messenger services
- Web content services
Bureau of Benefits
- Administers a group insurance plan for state employees, retirees, and dependents.
- Administers a group insurance plan for retirees and dependents of community colleges and downstate public school districts.
- Administers a self-funded group insurance plan for local government employees, retirees, and dependents.
- Administers pre-tax Medical Care Assistance, Dependent Care Assistance, and Qualified Transportation Benefit Programs for state employees.
- Administers a Deferred Compensation Plan for state employees.
- Administers risk management programs for workers' compensation, auto liability, and representation and indemnification.
- Effective July 1, 2005, Governor's Executive Order 2005-3 transferred the procurement of health insurance to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
- Administers state employees workers' compensation claims (except for University of Illinois and Illinois Toll Highway Authority), a function previously decentralized in four different agencies.
Bureau of Business Enterprise Program
Promotes the economic development of businesses owned by members of minority groups, females, or persons with disabilities by providing access and assistance in the procurement process for contracts from state agencies and universities.
Bureau of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement
- Oversees state equipment and commodity procurements.
- Encourages joint purchasing by local governments off state contracts.
- Designates procurements restricted to small business bidding.
- Encourages contracting for goods and services from qualified sheltered workshops.
- Manages the state vehicle fleet.
- Operates state garages for repair and maintenance of the state fleet
- Administers the motor pool and leasing program.
- Provides meaningful employment opportunities for persons with disabilities and offers training opportunities for these individuals.
Bureau of Property Management
- Manages and maintains many state owned buildings.
- Secures space by lease or purchase to meet agency needs.
- Coordinates the disposition of surplus real property.
- Supervises the physical inventory of state property.
- Coordinates the disposition of surplus state property.
- Administers a surplus property program to distribute surplus federal property.
- Coordinates state recycling programs.
- Administers special events in all Northern Regional Facilities.
- Pursuant to Governor's Executive Order 2003-10, certain facilities management functions of agencies under the Governor transferred to CMS.
Bureau of Personnel
- Develops and administers the State's Personnel Code, Personnel Rules, Pay
Plan, Position Classification Plan, current collective bargaining agreements
and other applicable laws.
- Recruits and counsels candidates for state employment.
- Develops and administers testing and selection instruments.
- Establishes and implements classification and compensation standards, employee and agency transactions, payroll certification, and administration of the Rutan Supreme Court decision.
- 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.
- 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.
- As part of the Information Technology and Telecommunications Rationalization, BCCS centralized infrastructure functions previously devolved in certain agencies.
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