State of Texas: Department of Information Resources (DIR)

 Cooperative Contracts

DELIVERABLES-BASED IT SERVICES (DBITS)

Contract DIR-CPO-4984

 

Symbio proudly supports state and local government agencies and institutions

under the Texas Departmentof Information Resources (DIR) DBITS contract.

SYMBIO PROVIDES SERVICES IN THE FOLLOWING DBITS CATEGORY:

IT Assessments, Planning,

Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V),

Market Research, Procurement Advisory,

and Contract Implementation Services

  1. IT Assessments and Planning may include IT effectiveness, maturity, governance, and architecture. Strategic planning activities may include mission statement development, visioning and goals, objectives, and strategy development. Assessment of staff knowledge, skills and abilities, bandwidth, time and motion studies, and succession planning are included in this category. Strategic planning development and tactical planning may require the provisioning of actionable plans and roadmaps. Organization change management, enterprise architecture, cloud assessments, and network performance assessments are within scope as well.
  2. Also included in this category are the independent verification and validation procedures that are used together for in-depth analysis of a product, service, or system for compliance with requirements as well as the independent oversight of software (or systems) development life cycle (SDLC) processes and specifications.
  3. Market Research, Procurement Advisory, and Contract Implementation Services activities may include requirements gathering, facilitation activities, scoring criteria development, evaluation criteria development, negotiation guidance and assistance, and contract transition assistance.
  • Cost optimization including software license cost analysis;
  • Financial planning and pricing structures;
  • Market reviews/market research;
  • Market engagement;
  • Transition/implementation assistance; and
  • IT contract management assistance.

Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management, Analytics, and Automation, including Data Warehousing

  1. Business Intelligence enables an organization to perform in-depth analysis and includes, where required, data mining of detailed business data providing real and significant information to business users. BI may include an integrated group of operational and decision support applications and databases. BI makes use of tools designed to easily access data warehouse data. A data warehouse collects, organizes and makes data available for the purpose of analysis and gives organizations the ability to access and analyze information about its business. The function of the data warehouse is to consolidate and reconcile information from across disparate business units and IT systems and provide a context for reporting and analysis.
  2. Road mapping for a data warehouse initiative may include assessment of technology and infrastructure, as-is documentation, business requirements gathering, use case development, and reporting requirements analysis.
  3. This category includes solutioning data warehouse architectural design, data warehouse processes and sourcing, extraction, transformation, analytics, and loading of data sources; planning, assessment, product installation and tuning; prototype development, deployment, data cleansing, data mart development and support; data migration, integration with data mining; integration with business intelligence tools, artificial intelligence, and/or systems; data scrubbing; data transformation; training and knowledge transfer.
  4. Data governance planning and implementation, and Business Analytics and Reporting (BAR) are also included in this category.

Summary of the DIR DBITS process:

      • A Statement of Work (SOW) is created in the form contained in Appendix C
      • SOW is released to DBITS vendor(s)
      • Response(s) are evaluated
      • A Purchase Order is issued by the Customer to the selected vendor
      • A Project can begin once the Purchase Order is accepted

For additional information, regarding quotes, purchase orders, and warranty information, contact:

Shaun Daly

shaun.daly@symbioecosystems.com

(214) 450-3947

 

Please see the DIR Cooperative Contracts Program, Deliverables Based IT Services (DBITS), and SOW Process for more information about the DIR Cooperative Contracts Program.

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