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The Domestic Relations Office would like to implement a cloud-based system that enables scheduling, communication, identity verification and check-in/checkout processes for families, guardians and staff.
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The comment, phoned in during a November City Council meeting, has prompted discussion of how to keep meetings open, transparent and accessible for city constituents while preventing future incidents.
The Health and Human Services Commission has asked experienced vendors to provide rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimates for system delivery and/or service delivery options.
The chosen MSI will assume management of DIR’s existing ServiceNow environment, integrate new services and component providers into the MSI operating model and provide program strategy management.
The agency’s capital budget request is about $3 million less than the agency was granted for equivalent items in FY 2024-25.
The goal of expanding broadband availability in Texas has been a long time coming, and local government and Internet providers across the state have been working toward rural connectivity and securing funds.
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The council is looking to establish a master services agreement with one or more vendors through its TXShare purchasing cooperative.
The network wants to implement real-time tracking to keep up with patients, staff, assets and compliance practices such as hand washing.
TWC prefers a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution that can support blind or visually impaired staff and customers of TWC’s Vocational Rehabilitation Division programs.
The district's Mental Health Services Department requires a web-based electronic medical records system that is capable of interfacing with its current solution.
The North Texas county is the state’s sixth most populous at 1.1 million residents, and its adopted budget goals include infusing technology throughout operations.
The Department of Information Resources provides the statewide technology center and other services for which they receive payment. Meanwhile, Deloitte and Rackspace continue to head the state IT spending list.
The county has issued a request for proposals seeking vendors that will help fill contract-to-hire IT positions.
The agency is seeking either a software-as-a-solution option, a vendor-hosted solution or a Texas data center services hosted-and-managed solution.
The city's Parks and Recreation Department requires a new system to help meet increased demand for youth and adult sports, recreation programs and amenity/facility reservations.
Each year, Texas IT Leadership Forum organizers highlight those impacting the way state and municipal governments build and use constituent-facing and back-end technologies.
Texas completed its first-round State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program applications in March; a report indicates the next opens in the new year.
According to the request, the agency requires $27 million for IT capital budget items and $8 million for a single IT exceptional item.
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City IT discovered a malicious script that left some systems offline Thursday and Friday; the city disclosed the incident on its website.
The CPA has requested the system for the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company, a special-purpose trust company that manages approximately $160 billion for approximately 33 state and local clients.
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