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The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) provides oversight for the State of Texas Information, Data, and Technology. This includes the DIR Vendor List and a list of DIR Contracts for IT services within the State of Texas.
Texas Department of Information Resources
The Texas DIR agency provides leadership on what technology solutions and vendors shall be selected to design, run, and maintain computing systems and software for state government, local government, and educational organizations.
More information on the DIR can be found here.
DIR Contract
A Texas DIR Contract, is a contract with a vendor, or primary vendor, and a group of subcontractors which has been registered in the DIR Contract List. These contracts are maintained by businesses, which include Contracts and Services, Data Center Services, and Enterprise Solution Services.
Some government and educational agencies are required to pick a vendor from a contract, under Texas DIR, while others are not required to use the DIR, but may elect to do so voluntarily. For smaller contracts, especially those under $50,000, the DIR process, which is sometimes regarded as limiting and less than efficient, is usually not required.
DIR Vendor List
Viscosity specializes in delivering high value to our customers for minimal cost. All of our training services and assessment services, as well as many of our development and integration projects, when using a low code platform like Oracle Apex, fall under the $50,000 mark, for RFP processes and DIR Contracts. This low cost and high value proposition makes it very easy for Texas education, state and local government entities to do business with Viscosity North America.
Entities can be assured quality as well, in fact Viscosity has written more than 11 books on technology, and regularly present on technology best practices at conferences nationwide. Topics include engineered systems; including Oracle Exadata patching, Exalogic, PCA, and Exalytics.
Texas HUB Vendors
Texas HUB Vendors are companies that have been certified by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), under the Historically Underutilized Business program. HUB seeks to increase purchases for minority, woman-owned, and Service Disabled Veteran companies.
Viscosity North America has been certified as a Texas HUB Vendor and partners with other Texas based HUB certified vendors, to help promote the mission of the OAG.
Services
Viscosity’s service delivery models, across our areas of specialty.
Assessments
High value, low cost assessments of your current project, configuration or environment.
Training
Customized training, with your data and resources, on any topic for your team.
Projects
Full, turn-key projects for your Data, Applications or Infrastructure needs.
Managed Services
Ongoing, high value monitoring and maintenance for your systems and software.
Application Development
Partners: Oracle, PAAS, Sencha Ext-JS, Angular2, Komodo, Apex, Jquery, Java
Enterprise Architecture
IT Operations & Analytics
Storage
Engineered Systems
Partners: Oracle( Exadata, Supercluster, Exalogic, Exalytics )
Virtualization & Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Partners: VMWare, Oracle( ODA, ZFS, PCA ), vBlock
Enterprise Infrastructure
DIR Services
In addition to low cost, high value assessments and application development, DIR participants can utilize Viscosity for Oracle license audits and licensing reviews.
The following is a partial list of DIR Services for the State of Texas that Viscosity is capable of providing:
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A full list of DIR contracts and vendors can be found here.