Deliverables-Based Information Technology Services - GoDirect Contract

During 2008 the Department of Information Resources (DIR) distributed an RFO to solicit responses from IT vendors, for the purpose of creating a list of pre-approved vendors, based on experience and references. On January 15, 2009, Cooper Consulting was one of the first vendors chosen by DIR to be awarded a contract under the DBITS solicitation. This new contracting vehicle for state agencies (and other governmental entities) will streamline the process that agencies go through to acquire outsourced services for projects. Instead of the lengthy RFO process required in the past, DBITS allows any Texas agency to go-direct to vendors and ask the vendors to respond directly to agency needs based on a Statement of Work.

The DBITS contract process will allow agencies to solicit quotes for a fixed price project based on a Statement of Work (SOW). The SOW is developed by the agency team and is used to identify the specific services to be performed by the vendor to fulfill its contractual obligations for projects expected to be less than $10M. The SOW will indicate the type, level, quantity, and quality of service as well as the time constraint for the delivery of the project components.

Cooper Consulting was awarded three project categories for the deliverables based services based on our 15 years of successful service delivery in Texas public sector and excellent references. We hope to add another category in the near future - Application Maintenance and Support.

Project Management
Application Development
Technology Migration/Upgrade and Transformation

Combining the flexibility of the go-direct for staff augmentation with the go-direct nature of this new contract provides a powerful opportunity to get more done, at a lower cost, and with much less red tape. We are pleased to offer our services to our public sector customers under this new, streamlined contracting process. If you would like to know more please Contact Us.

We at Cooper Consulting are pleased to offer our services to our public sector customers under this new, streamlined contracting process.

You can find our new contract and documentation on the DIR web site at:

DIR - DBITS -COOPER CONSULTING

See a few Statement of Work samples:

For ordering and processing instructions, see the link below:

http://www.dir.state.tx.us/store/busops/dbits/index.htm#how