Two go-lives. No missed sunset.
Valley Regional Transit had to retire FleetNet before it went dark, and replace it with something that could carry finance, fleet maintenance, assets, and inventory at once. Avèro ran the selection, then stayed on as independent oversight until both systems were live.
A legacy sunset date is the one deadline in government technology that does not move.
Valley Regional Transit runs public transportation across Idaho's Treasure Valley. Its financial and fleet maintenance operations ran on FleetNet, a system with a known end of life. That gave the agency a hard constraint most modernization programs do not have: the replacement had to be live before the old system stopped being supported.
VRT engaged Avèro in May 2022. The work started with a comprehensive needs assessment and a requirements traceability matrix, then moved through the RFP, vendor evaluation, and contract negotiations that selected Oracle Fusion as the agency's unified enterprise platform.
Selection is where most advisory engagements end. This one did not. Avèro served in an independent oversight and advisory role throughout implementation, working alongside the system integrator on project management, vendor coordination, issue and risk management, and go-live readiness. The system integrator answered for their own delivery. Avèro answered to VRT.
ERP went live in June 2024, ahead of the FleetNet sunset. Enterprise Asset Management followed in December 2024. Financial, asset, maintenance, and inventory data now sit in a single cloud system of record.
Selection through go-live, with the record intact.
A needs assessment fed a requirements matrix. The matrix fed an RFP and evaluation. The evaluation selected Oracle Fusion. Then Avèro stayed on as independent oversight through two go-lives.
Needs assessment
Current-state analysis across finance, fleet maintenance, assets, and inventory, with the FleetNet sunset as a fixed constraint on every recommendation.
Requirements traceability matrix
Requirements written so each one could be scored against a vendor response and traced through to acceptance testing.
RFP & vendor evaluation
A competitive procurement and structured evaluation that selected Oracle Fusion ERP and EAM, plus support through contract negotiations.
Independent oversight
Project management, vendor coordination, and issue and risk management alongside the system integrator, accountable to VRT rather than to the implementation.
Go-live readiness
Readiness assessment and cutover support for two separate go-lives, sequenced so operations never lost continuity.
Post-live optimization
A platform positioned for ongoing optimization rather than a program that ends the day the system turns on.
Both systems live. Spreadsheets retired.
ERP live June 2024
Oracle Fusion ERP went live ahead of the FleetNet sunset, protecting operational continuity through the transition.
EAM live December 2024
Enterprise Asset Management followed six months later, bringing asset, maintenance, and inventory data into the same system of record.
Reporting that holds up
Grant and budget reporting strengthened, asset lifecycle visibility improved, and security and governance controls tightened across the platform.
A completed program is a rarer outcome than it should be.
Government ERP replacements are frequently late, over budget, or quietly descoped. Valley Regional Transit hit two go-lives against a hard legacy sunset, retired its spreadsheet dependencies, and came out with a scalable cloud platform. The engagement ran from May 2022 to January 2026, which is what a full lifecycle actually costs in time.
Complete Selection through go-live · Two platforms live · Legacy retired on schedule
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