CPRIT oversight committee approves LAR amendment to fund new grant-management platform via DIR

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas oversight committee voted to amend the agency’s 2026–27 Legislative Appropriations Request to add a capital exceptional item for a new grant management platform procured through the Texas Department of Information Resources.

Ms. McConnell, a CPRIT staff member, told the committee that the request would allow the agency to “procure a new grant management platform or GMP, through the auspices of the Department of Information Resources.” She said DIR would run the procurement and hold the contract while DIR vendors develop and configure the system for CPRIT’s programs.

The agency presented cost estimates for fiscal 2026 that staff described as a rough order of magnitude: a technology assessment of about $560,000 and acquisition, development, systems integration, change management, cybersecurity, maintenance and help-desk support estimated at roughly $9,600,000, producing a near-term total the staff rounded to “almost $10,200,000.” Recurring…