Harris County
What to Know:
- The Harris County Department of Education is seeking a broad range of technology goods and services for its cooperative purchasing division, Choice Partners.
- Choice Partners serves more than 2,500 members nationwide.
- The scope of work includes the supply and support of technology hardware, software, asset management services, IT support and leasing options.
What to Know:
- The county aims to gather details on available technologies and best practices for an integration platform that could support a wide range of justice system stakeholders.
- The judicial web system currently serves as the central system for more than 100 courts and multiple agencies.
- The county processes more than 70,000 civil cases annually and over 30,000 criminal cases through the platform each month.
What to Know
- The Harris County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to create a Harris County Broadband Task Force.
- More than 171,000 homes in Harris County do not have a broadband connection.
- Harris County Universal Services CIO and Executive Director Sindhu Menon will lead the task force.
The department is looking to contract with one or more vendors willing to offer competitive pricing on a wide range of tech offerings.
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The solution must be capable of supporting unlimited devices and remote access connections per user and per device, including laptops, desktops, mobile data terminals, mobile phones and tablets.
“Our goal is to be a leader and learner in these technology spaces,” said CIO Sindhu Menon. “So many agencies across the country are experimenting and working with these novel technologies and we plan to be part of the conversation.”
The system will manage work orders, assets, finances and budget needs for the division encompassing IT and fleet services in the state’s most populous county.
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Menon will lead a team of IT professionals serving the nation’s third-largest county and Texas’ largest. The department has 11 divisions that serve about 17,774 full-time staff and 4.7 million residents.
Implementations and contracts include digital jury payments and telecommunications.
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