Slalom and the State of Texas - DBITS
Slalom, a global consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation is pleased to be able to provide services to the public sector in the State of Texas and other public entities outside the state. With five locations across Texas, we are uniquely positioned to serve state and local government, and public and higher education organizations. Read more about our Public Sector work here.
Contract Details
Slalom, Inc. dba Slalom Consulting offers deliverables-based information technology services (DBITS) through its contract with DIR under its DIR Cooperative Contracts, specifically: Application Development, Maintenance, and Support, Technology Upgrade, Migration, and Transformation; and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management, Analytics, and Automation, including Data Warehousing and IT Assessments, Planning, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), and Market Research, Procurement Advisory, and Contract Implementation Services; and Project and Program Management. This contract is for services only. No hardware or software products may be sold through a DBITS contract. Resellers are not available for this DBITS contract.
Please visit the DIR Cooperative Contracts Website for more information.
Services
Slalom offers deliverables-based information technology services (DBITS) through its contract specifically:
Application Development
Application Development is the development of new applications which may be mainframe, server, network-based, web-based or a combination and may require interfaces to existing applications.
Application Maintenance and Support
Application Maintenance and Support includes troubleshooting, modifying, maintaining, improving security, and enhancing legacy systems and applications which may be running in a production environment.
Technology Upgrade and Migration
Technology upgrade, migration, and transformation may be accomplished by converting/migrating legacy applications to new technology, either with or without new business functionality. It may also include introducing new technology into the enterprise and managing any changes as a result of the introduction.
Transformation
Transformation may include assessments of the current application portfolio, evaluation of the technology assets before beginning technology transformation and Business Case development for justification of an initiative. Part of the transformation journey may include planning, analysis, requirements development, proof of concept, deployment, implementation, integration, remediation, data migration, documentation, application programming and support services, and training support. Return on investment (ROI), benchmarks, and milestones may also be appropritae to include in a transformation initiative.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
ERP is an amalgamation of an organization's information systems designed to automate and integrate a variety of functions, commonly referred to as "back office," including financials, human resources and asset management. These systems are usually modularized and generally highly configurable. Business Process Reengineering (BPR), system or application changes, implementation, conversion services, and training are often included in an ERP initiative.
Business Intelligence (BI)
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.
Data Management
Road mapping for a data warehouse initiative may include assessment of technology and infrastructure, as-is documentation, business requirements gathering, use case devleopment, and reporting requirements analysis.
Analytics, and Automation
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 transfomration; training and knowledge transfer.
Data Warehousing
Data governance planning and implementation, and Business Analytics and Reporting (BAR) are also included in this category.
Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)
Independent verification and validation procedures 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 lifecycle (SDLC) processes and specifications.
IT Assessments and Planning
IT Assessments and Planning may include IT effectiveness, maturity, governance, and architecture. Strategic planning activities may include mission statement development, visioning nad 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.
Market Research, Procurement Advisory, and Contract Implementation Services
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
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.
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; and ix) Agile development, training, and coaching.
Examples of include utilizing the Customer's tools and processes, 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 url: https://prod.dir.texas.gov/project-delivery-framework
Obtaining a Quote and Placing Purchase Orders
Reference DIR contract number on quotes and Purchase Orders.
- Contact your local sales team.
- A Statement of Work (SOW) is drafted by the customer, utilizing the SOW Template for DBITS.
- The client and Slalom will need to discuss and clearly document and define the following in the Engagement Contract Order Form:
- Scope of work
- Deliverables
- Rates and Payment
- Project Information
- Timing
- Dependencies
- Functional, Technical and Non-Technical Requirements
- Slalom and client collaborate on the final Engagement Contract Form to achieve desired outcomes
- The customer is responsible for creating a purchase order (PO). The PO must reference DIR Contract DIR-CPO-6063
- The vendor will begin work when the purchase order is received.
For additional information, current pricing, or to inquire about Slalom services under the DIR contract, please contact: psicontracts@slalom.com.
Warranty and Return Policies
Customers may provide written notice to Slalom of errors, inaccuracies, or other deficiencies in products or services provided by Slalom under a Purchase Order within thirty (30) calendar days or receipt of an invoice for such products or services. Services will be performed in accordance with industry standards. Slalom shall correct such error, inaccuracy, or other deficiency at no additional cost to Customer.
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