It is the last week prior to Summit week. I hope that all of you will be able to join us in Galveston. For the week of February 18, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
The next Board of Regents meeting has been moved to April 10 – 12 in College Station
The contract award winner for the RELLIS DAS contract will be notified this week
The finalists for the Financial System Re-Platform RFP POC have been whittled down to three. Each finalist is responding to a set of questions. The evaluation team hopes to make a recommendation this week
There appears to be enough interest in the System-wide Adobe ETLA to sign the contract. I need firm commitments to execute a contract:
- Your confirmation of interest
- Your confirmed number of FTS’s
- The date you want the agreement to start
As soon as we have enough confirmed FTEs by a specific date, we will sign an agreement
System-Wide Contracting News
New
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development
- Adobe will provide Members with the full Creative Cloud suite and Adobe Pro software tools. The proposal has been finalized. Commitments are being sought.
- Captioning Services will provide Members with closed caption, transcription, and subtitling solutions to make video accessible, searchable, SEO-friendly, and more engaging. The RFP is being drafted.
Repeats
Current A&M System-wide Contracts
- Access Data provides members with preservation hold software (in annual assessment)
- Banner COE provides members with Banner-related services (discretionary)
- Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system option to members (discretionary)
- Canvas provides a cloud-based learning management system option to members (discretionary)
- Class Climate (Scantron) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- D2L provides a cloud-based learning management system option to members (discretionary)
- Diligent provides board portal functionality for all members (discretionary)
- DocuSign provides members with electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- Duo provides two-factor authentication for all members (discretionary)
- Examity provides members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract)
- eXplorance provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- GovQA (WebQA) is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution for all members (in annual assessment)
- Guardian I-9 (LawLogix) provides members with electronic I-9 compliance verification (discretionary).
- Hootsuite enables members to manage social networks, schedule messages and measure social media from a dashboard (discretionary)
- IOTA Solutions provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Laserfiche provides members with the digitization of documents, the automation of records processing, storage retrieval, security and archiving (discretionary)
- Modo Labs provides mobile application development support (discretionary)
- Oracle provides members with a shared hardware/software platform to host Oracle-based applications (discretionary)
- ProctorU provides members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary)
- Proofpoint email filtering and data loss prevention tools (in annual assessment)
- Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links and accessibility for 54 cents per web page per year (discretionary)
- Smart Net (Cisco) offers members equipment maintenance (discretionary)
- SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Syncplicity licensing is available for all members (in annual assessment)
- Varonis will provide members with insider threat protection (discretionary)
- WebEx online collaboration and meeting software is available to all members at the low cost of $1.44 per month per license (discretionary)
SCIO Trips/Visits
- No trips scheduled for this week