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MARS Project Overview

MARS Project Goals & Benefits


MARS was launched to support redesigned processes and reengineering goals. MARS was approved, in large measure, based on the benefits it would provide. As such, when MARS is implemented on July 1, 1999, a clear set of improvements will result. The benefits include:

  • improved ease of use
  • automation of cumbersome manual processes
  • replacement of many paper based input processes with electronic workflow
  • establishment of electronic report distribution
  • improved  accuracy, accessibility and timeliness of management reporting and decision support
  • implementation of self service functionality for employees by establishing web-based applications (requisitions and travel vouchers) and vendors (bids and vendor registration)
  • streamlined financial and materials management processes for all branches of government
  • reduced maintenance effort and costs
  • increased flexibility in delegating data entry, authority, source document custody, and system administration functions


  • MARS Project Relationship With Other Initiatives
    The MARS Project is one of three major inter-related projects: 
  • The Business Improvement Projects (BIPs), designed to realize targeted savings in the next biennium through the implementation of re-engineered procurement and financial management processes with low dependence on technology.
  • The MARS Project, which will implement a new Financial and Materials Management System built around AMS’s ADVANTAGE™ Financial and AMS’s Procurement Desktop™, and BTI’s BRASS applications. This project will implement or enable those redesigned processes that are technology dependent.
  • Change Leadership Initiatives, which will 1) assist agencies in the design of new administrative organization and workforce structures and 2) assist Commonwealth senior managers and project teams in easing the transition to a new MARS environment.


  • Organizations Affected by MARS


    It is the intent of the MARS implementation to provide full financial and material management and related administrative functionality for all organizations in the Commonwealth.


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    MARS Implementation Timeline

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    Last Updated 12/10/2004
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