Ohio's IT Alliance (OhioITA) recently conducted a survey to determine the impact of GSA Contract Requirements on IT Services companies that are also listed on Ohio's State Term Schedule. The attached paper provides an executive summary of the survey findings. To access the document, please click on the article title and you will see a page with a link to the document.

 

OhioITA will continue discussions with the companies affected and with Ohio's Department of Administrative Services (DAS) to discuss the approach to addressing this issue. 
 
If you need more information, please contact OhioITA by clicking on the Contact Us option on this website.

From the Dayton Daily News - In an unusual move for a privately held corporation, a Dayton-based data management and analytics company has begun to give gifts of equity to Springfield and Dayton area educational and non-profit organizations.

 

Qbase, with area offices in Beavercreek and Springfield, Ohio, announced Monday, March 10, its board members will donate a total of $1.4 million in stock, or about seven percent of the company's currently outstanding shares. All recipients will become voting shareholders.

 

For more information, please visit www.qbase.us.

OhioITA's mission is to be an advocate for the IT Industry in Ohio and make it more competitive. One of the issues confronting Ohio's IT Industry is Workforce Development and its ability to grow, attract and retain IT talent in Ohio to fuel the growing resource demands of the IT industry. Several suggestions made in Bill Gates' testimony are important to addressing the issue of IT Workforce Development in Ohio.

 

You may be impacted if your company holds an Ohio State Term Schedule for IT services; that contract requires you to maintain a GSA contract. Of importance to you are the federal performance clauses that must be achieved to maintain that GSA, and failure to do so may threaten your ability to maintain your STS contractor status.

 

Ohio’s IT Alliance is in the process of re-positioning itself and its new initiatives based on the new business paradigm it is pursuing. OhioITA is working with Communica, Inc., an award winning marketing firm to establish new and effective ways to position the organization, its brand and its programs to most efficiently meet the market needs of our stakeholders and clients. You can provide feedback and input to OhioITA’s brand by taking this short survey. Please click here to take this survey -> http://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/28beg30037.