QUESTION
What proportion of the OTPS budget is allocated to contracts in fiscal 2024, 2025, and the out years?
1:25:14
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Most of the Division of Information Technology's (DIIT) Other Than Personal Services (OTPS) budget is allocated to contracts or purchase orders with third parties.
- The budget covers expenses such as hardware, maintenance agreements, software, and software licenses from IBM, Google, Microsoft, and others.
- Significant expenditure areas include service desk operations, handled by outsourced vendors, and project scopes for IT services firms to enhance or build new systems.
- The DIIT OTPS budget prioritizes spending on third-party contracts and purchase orders essential for hardware, software, and service maintenance.
- Spending focuses on both operational support through service desks and developmental aspects such as building or enhancing systems.
Rita C. Joseph
1:25:14
So how much of the o TPS budget for fiscal 2024, 2025, and out years are in contracts?
Scott Strickland
1:25:21
So the DIIT OTPS other than personal services, so that's everything that we spend other than our full time staff, which we talked about.
1:25:29
Most of it is with third parties, whether it's contracts or POs, and that requires that's what we do when we buy hardware or we have to pay for maintenance agreements on that hardware that goes into our hosting environments.
1:25:42
We buy software and software licenses towards to IBM.
1:25:47
We buy from Google, from Microsoft, etcetera.
1:25:50
And there's two places that are we spend money on contracts that are with people, the first being our service desk, where we have a outsourced vendors that handles all of our ticketing in in response to user queries on our services.
1:26:07
And we create project scopes that IT services firms bid on to either enhance our current systems or build brand new systems.
1:26:19
So