Welcome to the return of college football across the system this week
For the week of August 28, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
The Learning Management System RFP has been posted
I sent a product line card for Reverent Technologies, HUB IT provider; they have various DIR/Cooperative contracts already in place to assist you in increasing your HUB spend.
Please reach out tho them for bids as is warranted; here is an excerpt of their introductory email:
As a value added reseller, Reverent Technologies, is based out of Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in Texas as a HUB (Women owned business) to provide best of breed products and services to the commercial business, state and local government and higher education. Our belief is to be an extension to our customers, to help support their business with a focus in three key areas 1) resolving business issues 2) securing the business from threats 3) helping grow the business. We do this based on our historical knowledge across many business and using best of breed products with a very strong commitment to success well after the purchase.
Our customers are a mixture of finance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, state and local governments and education. We have established good relationships with our vendors to make sure our customers are getting the best products, at the best prices and the critical support after the purchase.
As a HUB we are registered with the state of Texas and utilize several Texas DIR contract vehicles to provide many different products.
Repeats
Vendor Updates
- Columbia Advisory Council
- I sent a copy of a TIPS agreement that members can use for the following CAG-related, non-SIS services:
- vCISO (for A&M-Commerce, TAMUT, A&M-Central Texas, PVAMU, TTI, TAMIU, Texas A&M-Kingsville)
- Salesforce.com (for TDEM)
- Interim CIO
- Infrastructure (for PVAMU, TDEM)
- Desktop Support
- And others
- Since many member Procurement Offices use TIPS for procurement purposes, please check with your Procurement Office whether your member is currently registered with TIPS; if not, there is no cost and having access to this agreement will allow you to renew CAG-related services no longer covered under the new SIS system-wide agreement
- Please contact me directly with questions
- I sent a copy of a TIPS agreement that members can use for the following CAG-related, non-SIS services:
- Columbia Advisory Council
Nick McLarty distributed the revised DPS and OGC approved prohibited technologies plan for the 18 members whose plans were rejected; please resubmit this revised plan
Danny Miller is working with OGC to develop a notification of how TAMUS members will be directed to transition from Blackbaud to another CRM system; please stand by as this notification has been revised multiple times
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:
- Course Survey Tools (in development)
- CRM RFP (with Procurement)
- Data Management Office RFP (Reviewing reponses)
- LMS RFP (Posted)
- Proctoring RFP (with Procurement)
- Student Support Services RFP (Reviewing responses)
- Web Hosting RFP (in development)
Repeats
Current A&M System-wide Contracts
- 3 Play Media provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Acadeum provides access to an online education marketplace that offers courses across a network of colleges and universities to help students stay on track and graduate faster (discretionary)
- Accelevents supports virtual and hybrid conferences (discretionary)
- AdmitHub fosters student success with artificial intelligence-powered mobile messaging and chatbots (discretionary)
- Adobe provides business software and services, including Creative Cloud, Acrobat Pro, Captivate, FrameMaker and Sign (discretionary)
- airSlate / SignNow provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- AT&T provides network as a service and related services (discretionary)
- Automatic Sync provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Aventri supports virtual and hybrid conferences (discretionary)
- Columbia Advisory Group provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
- Campus Sonar provides specialized social listening services for higher education (discretionary)
- Campus Works provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- campusM (Ex Libris) supports mobile application development (discretionary)
- Canvas (Instructure) provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
- Cisco Strategic Relationship supports the AT&T NaaS RELLIS services and includes discounted Cisco products and services (discretionary)
- Class Climate (Scantron) allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- D2L provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
- Diligent provides board portal functionality (discretionary)
- DocuSign provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- Duo (Cisco) provides two-factor authentication (discretionary)
- Examity provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
- eXplorance allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Fetii provides contactless scanning technology through QR codes (discretionary)
- GoReact provides a platform for feedback, grading and critiquing of video assignments (discretionary)
- GovQA (WebQA) is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution (assessed)
- Guardian I-9 (Equifax) provides electronic I-9 compliance verification (discretionary)
- Hootsuite enables members to manage social networks, schedule messages and measure social media from a dashboard (discretionary)
- Interfolio provides academic faculty management software (discretionary)
- IOTA Solutions allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Laserfiche provides document digitization and automated records processing, storage retrieval, security and archiving (discretionary)
- LinkedIn Learning provides video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative and business skills (discretionary)
- Microsoft provides business software and services (direct bill)
- Modo Labs supports mobile application development (discretionary)
- Navex provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
- NextGen provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- OculusIT provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- Oracle provides a shared hardware/software platform to host Oracle-based applications (discretionary)
- Palo Alto provides firewalls and associated security subscription services (discretionary)
- PlatformQ enables universities to connect with students at every stage of the recruitment process (discretionary)
- Pluralsight offers a variety of video-based training for software developers, IT administrators and creative professionals (discretionary)
- Portfolium (Instructure) provides students and recent graduates with the ability to connect with businesses and employers using previous academic work and projects to supplement their communication (discretionary)
- Proctorio provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
- Qualtrics provides an online survey tool that supports building and distributing surveys and analyzing the responses (discretionary)
- Salesforce Government Cloud provides customer relationship management software (discretionary)
- Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links, and accessibility (assessed)
- Smart Net (Cisco) provides Cisco equipment maintenance (discretionary)
- SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Sprout Social provides a social media management platform (discretionary)
- Sterling provides background check services for employment, employment screening, drug testing, I-9 employment and education verification (discretionary)
- Strata Information Group provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- TeamDynamix provides cloud-based IT service and project management software (discretionary)
- Verbit provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- VMware provides various VMware software, services and training/consulting credits (discretionary)
- WebEx (Cisco) provides online collaboration and meeting software (discretionary)
Travel
- TAMU (Sep 2)