{"id":229689,"date":"2026-03-31T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/texas-it-department-selects-vendor-for-state-local-technology-services\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:10:11","slug":"texas-it-department-selects-vendor-for-state-local-technology-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/texas-it-department-selects-vendor-for-state-local-technology-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas IT department selects vendor for state, local technology services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/texas-it-department-selects-vendor-for-state-local-technology-services\/\">Texas IT department selects vendor for state, local technology services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/texas-it-department-selects-vendor-for-state-local-technology-services\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/texas-it-department-selects-vendor-for-state-local-technology-services\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-31 13:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York IT services firm Kyndryl on Monday\u00a0announced it\u2019s been awarded a contract by the Texas Department of Information Resources\u00a0to provide deliverables-based IT services, or DBIT, to state agencies, local governments, public education institutions and other public-sector organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Through the\u00a0contract, a number of public\u2011sector organizations in Texas will be able to access Kyndryl\u2019s services for supporting and modernizing\u00a0systems\u00a0through the Texas DIR Cooperative Contracts Program, which means agencies won\u2019t need to run a full procurement process. This, the company said, will help streamline project initiation and reduce administrative burden, enabling agencies to move faster on IT projects. The company said it will support Texas agencies in strengthening their cybersecurity, modernizing old platforms and enhancing digital services.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement gives agencies access to a broad range of technology services \u2014 including application development, cloud migration, data analytics and program management \u2014 through a single provider. The work with DIR, the company\u2019s press materials said, will be led by its\u00a0consulting advisory teams, which will help agencies assess their technology environments, identify modernization priorities and streamline projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKyndryl is committed to supporting the agencies that millions of Texans depend on every day,\u201d Anita Mikus, vice president and managing director of US state and local government at Kyndryl, said in a news releases. \u201cWith decades of experience supporting mission\u2011critical government systems, deep expertise across security, cloud, applications and data, and teams embedded across Texas, we\u2019re bringing the capabilities agencies need to modernize legacy platforms, strengthen cybersecurity and deliver more reliable digital services through the DIR contract vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Keely Quinlan<\/h4>\n<p>\t\t\tKeely Quinlan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/texas-it-department-selects-vendor-for-state-local-technology-services\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas IT department selects vendor for state, local technology services https:\/\/statescoop.com\/texas-it-department-selects-vendor-for-state-local-technology-services\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-31 13:51:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-612489244.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-229689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229691,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229689\/revisions\/229691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}