HB1, the budget bill, allocated $6 million to OCA for such a system, but the September award document shows an estimated contract value of $2.6 million, according to Industry Navigator.*
For context, the agency in March requested a vendor-hosted, cloud-based, commercial off-the-shelf data system with business intelligence tools, automated programming interfaces, a user interface for case-level data submissions and the capacity to support a judicial directory.
Agency CIO Casey Kennedy said in 2023 that the current data reporting is general and not granular. The data would be transmitted from local systems to a “massive state data warehouse.”
Aspects of the data management:
- Data must be kept in the judicial system
- Data classification varies
- Privacy and control are of utmost importance
*Industry Navigator is a product of e.Republic, which also produces Industry Insider — Texas.