Texas Go DIRect Program
Strategic Staffing Solutions, also known as "S3" is a Michigan based Corporation founded in 1990 by President and CEO, Cynthia J. Pasky. S3 is a full service IT Services and Consulting Firm offering Staff Augmentation, Customized Project Solutions, Vendor Management Services, Executive Search and International Offshore services. Our capabilities allow us to deliver ideas and solutions that meet all of our customers' IT and Business resource needs. S3 is pleased to be selected as a provider of deliverables-based IT services to the State of Texas.
Purchase Orders
All Customer Purchase Orders will be placed directly with the Vendor after negotiation and agreement on a Statement of Work, as described in Section 4.B.of Contract No. DIR-SDD-851. Accurate Purchase Orders shall be effective and binding upon Vendor when accepted by Vendor.
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Vendor Contract Administrator
Vendor shall provide a dedicated Contract Administrator whose duties shall include but not be limited to: i) supporting the marketing and management of the Contract, ii) facilitating dispute resolution between Vendor and a Customer, and iii) advising DIR of Vendor's performance under the terms and conditions of the Contract. DIR reserves the right to require a change in Vendor's then-current Contract Administrator if the assigned Contract Administrator is not, in the opinion of DIR, adequately serving the needs of the State.
Jeff Thornbrugh
Texas Branch Manager
Austin I Houston l Dallas l San Antonio
Strategic Staffing Solutions
866-363-8326 office
713-859-2130 mobile
s3txdir@strategicstaff.com
Service Offerings
Services available under this Contract are limited to the deliverables-based information technology services Technology Categories as specified below.
- Application Development
- Application Maintenance
- IT Assessments/Planning
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Technology Migration/Upgrade
Application Development
The development of new applications which may be mainframe, server, network-based, web-based or a combination. The requirements for new applications may require interfaces to existing applications.
Examples of included services:
- Researching, analyzing, and gathering requirements
- Designing, programming, and testing
- Documenting and implementing
- Applying changes to the software language and/or database in which the application is written
- Providing corrections for production or any changes needed and participation in disaster recovery planning and documentation
Application Maintenance & Support
Application Maintenance and Support includes the skills and requirements for supporting application systems, including troubleshooting, modifying, maintaining and enhancing legacy systems. Application Maintenance and Support also applies to applications running in a production environment.
Examples of included services:
- Research, analysis, design, programming, testing, documenting and implementing maintenance changes
- Correcting software errors
- Modifying reports and ensuring accurate report runs
- Making modifications to the applications and documentation
- Writing ad hoc queries
- Loading and applying changes to the software language and/or database in which the application is written
- Providing corrections for production or any changes needed and participation in disaster recovery testing, planning and documentation.
Information Technology Assessments and Planning
IT Assessments and Planning includes IT effectiveness, maturity, governance, project management and architecture. Strategic planning activities may include mission statement development, visioning and goals, objectives, and strategy development. Tactical planning may require that actionable plans and roadmaps be provided.
Examples of included services:
- IT assessments, including enterprise architecture
- Staff knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) assessments
- Strategic and tactical planning
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
SOA organizes business software in a granular fashion so that common functions can be used interchangeably by different departments internally and by external business partners. The more granular the components (the more pieces), the more they can be reused. SOA is a way of thinking about IT assets as service components. When functions in a large application are made into stand-alone services that can be accessed separately, they are beneficial to several parties. SOAs are implemented via application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow components to communicate with each other.
Examples of included services:
- Planning and assessment
- Requirements development
- Proof of concept
- Implementation
- Deployment
- Governance
- Application programming and support services
- System software administration and support; and training support.
Technology Migration / Upgrade & Transformation
Technology Upgrade/Migration may be required to increase business functionality, reengineer a business function, keep current with vendor upgrades or when upgrading existing technology. Technology Transformation may be accomplished by converting/migrating legacy applications to new technology either with or without new business functionality or it may include introducing new technology into the enterprise. Technology Upgrade/Migration may also include providing website content accessibility compliance.
Examples of included services:
- Assessments of the current application portfolio
- Evaluation of the technology assets before beginning technology transformation and Business Case development for justification of an initiative.
- Technology transformations, which may include, appropriate Return on Investment (ROI), benchmarks and milestones.
- The following activities may also be included: planning, analysis, requirements development, proof of concept, deployment, implementation, integration, remediation, data migration, documentation, application programming and support services; and training support.
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