Deliverables-Based IT Services (DBITS) Contract Number: DIR-CPO-6278
The Texas Department of Information Resources offers Deliverables-Based IT Services as part of its DIR Cooperative Contracts program to Texas State agencies, institutions of higher education (public and private), K-12 schools (public, private, and charter), local governments (cities, counties, special districts, and other political subdivisions), public hospitals, hospital districts, and hospital authorities, volunteer fire departments, public safety entities, independent organizations certified under Texas Utilities Code, Section 39.151, Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, assistance organizations, and government entities outside of Texas.
BerryDunn is an approved Texas DIR Cooperative Contracts DBITS vendor. Our DBITS contract may be reviewed directly on the DIR Cooperative Contract page for BerryDunn. Service warranties are administered according to the terms of the DIR DBITS contract vehicle.
About the contract
BerryDunn’s service offerings under DBITS Contract No. DIR-CPO-6278 include:
Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management, Analytics, and Automation, including Data Warehousing
A. BI 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.
B. 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.
C. 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.
D. Data governance planning and implementation, as well as Business Analytics and Reporting (BAR) are also included in this category.
IT Assessments, Planning, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), and Market Research, Procurement Advisory, and Contract Implementation Services
This category includes, but is not limited to:
A. 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 provision of actionable plans and roadmaps. Organization change management, enterprise architecture, cloud assessments, and network performance assessments are within scope as well.
B. 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.
C. 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.
i) Cost optimization including software license cost analysis
ii) Financial planning and pricing structures
iii) Market reviews/market research
iv) Market engagement
v) Transition/implementation assistance
vi) IT contract management assistance
NOTE: When using Procurement Advisory Services under the Texas Government Code, § 2155.004, a state agency may not accept a bid or award a contract that includes proposed financial participation by a person who received compensation from the agency to participate in preparing the specifications or request for proposals on which the bid or contract is based. The selected Contract Holder and the employees of that Contract Holder who perform Procurement Advisory Services will be ineligible to respond to any resulting solicitation(s).
Project and Program Management
A. Project and Program management services include any or all the project management processes identified by the Project Management Institute® (PMI®) as published in the most recent edition of the PMBOK® Guide, including practice guides such as Agile and Managing Change in Organizations.
B. Examples of included services include utilizing the Customer’s tools and processes, using commercially available off-the-shelf tools, using Contract Holder’s own proprietary tools and processes to manage a project, and using the Texas Project Delivery Framework. Information about the framework tool can be found at the following source: Project Delivery Framework.
C. This category includes, but is not limited to:
i) Business case development
ii) Statewide impact analysis
iii) Cost to benefit analysis
iv) Risk assessment
v) Stakeholder management
vi) Organizational change management
vii) Strategic planning
viii) Program assessment
ix) Agile development, training, coaching
How to do business with BerryDunn through this contract
DIR Statement of Work (SOW) Process
The Texas DBITS contract process allows agencies to avoid lengthy bid processes and solicit quotes for a fixed-price project based on a Statement of Work (SOW). A DBITS-specific SOW template and guidance on the SOW process can be found on the DIR’s website. The SOW is developed by the agency seeking services and is used to identify the specific services to be performed by BerryDunn, including the work plan, deliverables, delivery schedule, and pricing.
Please note: Per Texas Government Code 2157.0685, State Agencies are required to submit SOWs for DIR review and approval prior to solicitation to vendors (award value over $50,000). DIR must review and sign the final SOW before it becomes valid and any money is paid to a vendor.
Public organizations outside of the State of Texas can also use this contract to purchase services by executing an Interstate Cooperation Contract with DIR.
Contact information
To understand more about the DBITS contracting process or to submit a quote form, please contact:
Kristine McNeil, Contract Manager
rfps@berrydunn.com
207.541.2200
Customers are required to reference DIR contract number DIR-CPO-6278 when placing a purchase order. For customer project and pricing inquiries, please contact our contract principal or an industry principal listed in the Professionals section.
Seth Hedstrom, Contract Principal
shedstrom@berrydunn.com
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