DuPage County technology committee approves Okta SSO contract and multiple IT purchases
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Summary
The DuPage County Technology Committee on March 3 approved a $99,961.91 Okta single sign‑on and MFA contract, authorized travel to a Zendesk conference and received purchase orders for Election Commission equipment and sheriff’s IT systems.
The DuPage County Technology Committee on March 3 approved a contract with Insight Public Sector to provide Okta single sign‑on and multifactor authentication licensing for the county’s information technology environment, and voted to accept several related IT purchase orders.
The chairwoman presented the Okta recommendation as a one‑year contract (04/30/2026–04/29/2027) with two optional one‑year renewals and a total first‑year cost of $99,961.91. Committee members moved, seconded and approved the contract. Anthony, the committee’s presenter from county IT, described the Okta implementation as “critical to our applications and critical to our security.”
Why it matters: the Okta contract consolidates identity and access management across county applications and supports multifactor authentication, which IT staff said is central to preventing unauthorized access.
The committee also approved a travel authorization for an IT staff member to attend the Zendesk Relate conference in Denver, Colorado, May 18–21, 2026, with estimated expenses of $3,035 for hotel, mileage and per diem. A motion to receive and place on file a CDW Government purchase order for election‑commission equipment not to exceed $129,396.13 carried on a separate vote.
Other procurement items approved or placed on file included: • A purchase order to Duplex Technologies Inc. (doing business as GlobalPoint) for managed IT monitoring and support for the Regional Office of Education (Feb. 2026–Feb. 2027), not to exceed $55,000. A committee member asked whether county IT could provide the service; IT staff said the county does not directly support the regional office and that a specialist resource would be required. • A subscription to Zoho Corporation to provide ManageEngine apps and licenses for the sheriff’s office (01/06/2026–01/05/2027), not to exceed $40,630; staff confirmed the item is a subscription. • A purchase order to Untethered Labs for gatekeeper systems for the sheriff’s office (02/04/2026–02/04/2027), not to exceed $28,980; the staff memo noted the item was not suitable for competitive bids.
All motions were moved and seconded in open session and carried. The committee’s procedural action on the CDW, Duplex/GlobalPoint, Zoho and Untethered Labs items was to receive and place the recommendations on file (a standard step for these informational/procurement items).
What’s next: contracts and purchase orders will proceed to the administrative steps required for execution and implementation; the committee did not direct additional study or amendments on these items at the meeting.