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State IT chief explains SITSD billing, onshore cloud costs and DPHHS line-by-line increases
Summary
State Information Technology Services Division CIO Kevin Gilbertson briefed the Appropriations Section C committee on how SITSD funds operations by billing agencies, why onshore government cloud costs are higher, and a line-by-line spreadsheet showing changes to the Department of Public Health & Human Services budget.
Kevin Gilbertson, chief information officer for the State Information Technology Services Division, told the House Appropriations Section C committee that SITSD operates as a proprietary enterprise that bills state agencies for products and services and must “earn” its budget by monthly billing to agencies. Gilbertson walked members through a PowerPoint and a spreadsheet prepared at the committee’s request showing the specific increases and decreases that were placed in DPHHS’s IT budget.
Gilbertson described SITSD’s organization — information security, technology (custom development and hosting), innovation and transformation (project and change management), communications, and operations (service desk and data centers). He said SITSD pays some enterprise contracts up-front (for example, the Microsoft enterprise agreement) and recovers the costs from…
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