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What Happens After an AI Readiness Assessment?
The point of an assessment is not the report. It is the decisions the report lets you make, and the fact that you can explain them afterwards.
This is what the weeks after one actually look like, what you are holding at ...
TIPS IT Consulting Services: A Guide for Public Agencies
Public agencies buy IT consulting for reasons that have very little to do with a shortage of technical ability. Agency technology teams are frequently excellent. What they lack is a second person who has done this partic...
IT Staff Augmentation for K-12 School Districts
Districts bring in outside technical people for two quite different reasons, and conflating them produces most of the disappointment associated with the model.
The first is cover. A network administrator resigns in Febru...
How Much Does TIPS 230601 IT Consulting Cost?
Most pages that answer this question do not answer it. This one can, because the rates under TIPS Contract 230601 are published as part of the award rather than quoted per customer.
Two things to understand before readin...
What to Look For in TIPS 230601 IT Consulting
An award tells you that a procurement happened. It does not tell you that the supplier who holds it is right for your project. Contract 230601 covers a broad range of work, several awarded vendors can quote the same requ...
What You Own at the End of a TIPS 230601 Engagement
A purchase order under this contract buys hours at a published ceiling. That is what the award settles, and it is very nearly all the award settles.
It is usually not what the buyer wanted. What a public organization wan...
Measuring the Value of TIPS 230601 IT Consulting
Twelve months after an engagement ends, somebody who did not authorize it will ask what it achieved. Often that person is new, or is in finance, or is preparing a budget request and needs to know whether the last one wor...
Accessibility Obligations in a TIPS 230601 Purchase
Most compliance questions in a technology purchase arrive through the funding: accept federal money and conditions follow it. Accessibility is not one of those. It attaches to a state or local government entity because o...
Cooperative Contract vs. Your Own RFP
A business office reaches this question in a fairly specific way. Someone has scoped a piece of technology work, found that an awarded cooperative contract appears to cover it, and now has to decide whether to buy throug...
How Much Does TIPS 250106 Technology Solutions Cost?
This contract prices two different things in two different ways, and a budget that treats them the same will be wrong in one direction or the other. Services carry published hourly ceilings. Products carry a discount off...