Kansas Office of Information Technology Services

Overview

The Kansas Office of Information Technology Services (OITS) is the executive branch's central IT organization, headquartered in Topeka and led by the Executive Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO). OITS delivers shared infrastructure — mainframe, data center (production operations in Overland Park, KS), network, and end-user services — increasingly on an 'as a service' consolidated model, and houses the Kansas Information Security Office (KISO) and a 24x7 Security Operations Center.

Governance runs through the Kansas Information Technology Office (KITO), which supports the statutory Executive, Judicial, and Legislative CITOs, the Chief Information Technology Architect (CITA), and the IT Executive Council (ITEC) that sets statewide IT policy and standards. The defining initiative is the SB 291-driven IT consolidation: a multi-year effort (with Gartner Consulting on the assessment) to bring agency IT infrastructure and security under OITS to cut risk and improve cyber posture.

For a Dell SLG seller, OITS is the executive-branch enterprise buying center, while the actual purchasing vehicles sit with the Department of Administration's Office of Procurement and Contracts.

 How this account buys
OITS is the technology buying center — Executive CITO Jeff Maxon leads statewide IT direction and the SB 291 consolidation effort
The IT Executive Council (ITEC) and Chief IT Architect (CITA) set the statewide standards and policy that shape what gets funded and how it must be built
KISO (CISO John Godfrey) gates security-relevant purchases as the SB 291 security-consolidation buildout continues
Purchasing itself runs through the Dept. of Administration's Office of Procurement and Contracts — not OITS directly — so confirm the active statewide contract and vendor registration on the supplier portal (supplier.sok.ks.gov) before pursuing a deal
Fastest compliant path: an existing Kansas statewide IT hardware contract via an authorized reseller, or a NASPO ValuePoint cooperative vehicle where a statewide contract doesn't exist

Where Dell Can Play

Confirm Dell's active Kansas statewide contracts and authorized-reseller coverage through the Office of Procurement and Contracts — that's the access path to executive-branch buys.
Map the SB 291 consolidation roadmap with OITS leadership and tie ISG infrastructure, DCaaS, and managed services to the agencies migrating into the OITS shared model.
Engage KISO (CISO John Godfrey) on the security side of consolidation — SOC, endpoint, and whole-of-state tooling, including where SLCGP grant dollars apply.
Lead with the Overland Park data-center 'as a service' modernization — hybrid cloud, infrastructure refresh, and lifecycle/managed offerings.
Position AI-ready infrastructure aligned to Kansas's generative AI policy guardrails as the consolidated platform takes shape.
Follow SB 51's whole-of-state expansion: as OITS begins reselling IT/cyber services to counties, cities, schools, hospitals, and nonprofits on chargeback, pursue the underlying platform, endpoint, and security build-out at OITS scale rather than one local buy at a time.

Budget & Fiscal

OITS is funded through a mix of State General Fund (SGF), agency cost recovery for shared services, and federal dollars. The headline funding event is SB 291: a $15.0M SGF appropriation to stand up consolidated IT and security, layered on top of normal service costs. Treat these figures as public budget-document estimates, not actuals.

$15.0M

SB 291 SGF appropriation

State General Fund tied to IT/security consolidation

~171.75

OITS funded FTE (FY2027 request)

Per OITS FY2027 budget request

KISO FTE (FY2026)

Up 19 in FY2026 as first step of SB 291 security consolidation

FY2026 budget cited ~+$3.1M for DCaaS (Data Center as a Service) and Microsoft O365 costs, partly offset by declining ARPA spend.
Much of OITS delivery is funded by cost recovery / chargeback to agencies for shared services rather than a single large GR line.
Largest agency IT spend (e.g., human services, transportation, revenue) sits with those agencies; OITS is the shared-services and consolidation hub.

Initiatives & Priorities

SB 291 IT & security consolidation

The flagship effort: consolidate state-agency IT infrastructure and security under OITS to reduce risk and cost. Gartner Consulting led a current-state assessment running through October 2025, feeding a plan for 2026 integration projects. This is where infrastructure, security tooling, and managed-services demand concentrates — track which agencies migrate and when.

Consolidation Modernization

DCaaS & shared data-center modernization

OITS is moving the mainframe and data-center footprint (production in Overland Park, KS) toward a Data-Center-as-a-Service / 'as a service' model, with O365 and managed services. A direct opening for ISG infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and lifecycle/managed offerings.

Data Center As-a-Service

Whole-of-state cybersecurity (KISO)

KISO runs enterprise security for the state — a 24x7 SOC, baseline security tooling offered to agencies at no cost, and administration of the federal State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP). Now formally extended beyond state agencies: SB 51 (signed April 2026) authorizes OITS to sell IT and cybersecurity services to political subdivisions — cities, counties, schools, hospitals, and nonprofits — on a chargeback model, opening a much larger local/whole-of-state audience. Security is a buying center in its own right and a consolidation priority under SB 291.

Cybersecurity Whole-of-State

Statewide generative AI policy

Under Gov. Kelly, OITS authored and the executive branch adopted a statewide generative AI acceptable-use policy (guardrails on restricted-use info, vendor disclosure of AI use). Signals AI governance is active — relevant for positioning AI-ready infrastructure and compliant solutions.

AI Governance

Procurement

OITS sets executive-branch IT direction and is the consolidation buying center, but state purchasing runs through the Kansas Department of Administration's Office of Procurement and Contracts. Confirm Dell's active Kansas statewide contracts and the right cooperative paths before forecasting, and align infrastructure/managed-services plays to the SB 291 consolidation roadmap.

Vehicle / gate	What it means for Dell
Kansas statewide contracts (Office of Procurement and Contracts)	Central purchasing for Kansas; statewide contracts are usable by state agencies, local government, and public education. Dell is among the OEMs carried on Kansas IT hardware contracts via authorized resellers — confirm current contract numbers and scope.
Kansas eSupplier / Procurement portal	Vendors must register on the State of Kansas supplier portal (supplier.sok.ks.gov) to bid; RFPs, bids, and awards post there. The route for new solicitations and contract onboarding.
Cooperative / national vehicles	Kansas entities also buy via national cooperative purchasing programs (e.g., NASPO ValuePoint and similar). Useful where a statewide contract is absent or for faster access — verify eligibility per buy.

Spend Signals

GovSpend · as of Aug 5, 2026

Office of Information Technology Services, Kansas · 3-yr · FY2023-2025

$2.6M

Dell footprint — all channels (3-yr · FY2023-2025), est.

Direct $2.6M

Dell vs. competitors (spend, payee)

Insight reseller

$35.9M

CDW reseller

$14M

SHI reseller

$6.9M

Carahsoft reseller

$5.5M

Dell

$2.6M

A subset of FY23 (calendar 2023) records in GovSpend were double-ingested: the same PO document appears once under a normal 'DT:MM/DD/YYYY DOC:xxx' number and again under a 'DT:YYYYMMDD DOC:xxx' variant whose line-item description carries an extra ' FUND: <fund name>' suffix. All figures here exclude the 'FUND:'-suffixed duplicate copies (verified by sampling matched pairs with identical DOC numbers and amounts); this removed roughly 8-15% from raw vendor sums.
Excluded as not on the named vendor list (all real, non-duplicate figures): Unisys $17.1M (OITS's data-center-as-a-service operator, per its own site — a competitor/systems-integrator relationship, not a hardware reseller), ATT $9.4M (telecom carrier), Ensono $6.5M (managed hosting), Software AG $1.8M, plus inter-agency entries 'Office Of Information Technology Service' and 'Department Of Administration' (self/parent billing, not commercial vendors).
dellFootprint could not be computed with the standard product-name text-match method: Kansas OITS line-item text (FieldGroup.POLineItem) is generic commodity-code language (e.g. 'INFO PROCESSING EQUIPMENT', 'MICROCOMPUTER EQUIP NON CAP', 'COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINT SVC') with no brand names, so a scan for dell/poweredge/optiplex/etc. returns zero matches even though $2.56M in real Dell vendor-name spend exists (same reason Cisco/HPE/Lenovo/Apple product-text scans also returned zero). The dellFootprint figure below instead sums Vendor.Name 'Dell Marketing LP' + 'Dell Financial Services LLC' (de-duplicated as above) as a direct-only floor; Dell sold through SHI, CDW, Insight, or Carahsoft cannot be isolated from this dataset and is not included, so the true all-channels figure is materially higher.
Sampled Dell Marketing LP line items are genuine hardware/services ('INFO PROCESSING EQUIPMENT', 'MICROCOMPUTER EQUIP NON CAP', 'CONSULTING SERVICES OTHER') — not a Microsoft-licensing-through-Dell pattern.
categories is omitted: LineItem.Category is empty for these records; category-like labels exist only as free text embedded in LineItem.Description, which is not a reliable structured field to aggregate.
expiringContracts and openBids are omitted: OITS's own GovSpend agencyId (172660) has zero contract records ever and only 3 bid records, all dated 2018-2020. Kansas procurement (per the account's own text) runs through the Dept. of Administration's Office of Procurement and Contracts, a separate agency not covered by this pass.

Power Structure

Decision-maker	Why they matter
Jeff Maxon Executive Chief Information Technology Officer (State CITO), OITS	Top executive-branch IT leader and SB 291 consolidation lead; former State CISO, so strong security orientation. The primary OITS relationship.
John Godfrey Executive Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), KISO	Runs the Kansas Information Security Office, SOC, and SLCGP. Owns the security buying center and the security side of consolidation.
Chief Information Technology Architect (CITA) Statewide IT architecture / standards	New CITA joined OITS in 2025; sets enterprise architecture standards through KITO — influences platform and infrastructure direction.
Kansas Information Technology Office (KITO) IT governance & ITEC policy	Supports the statutory CITOs and the IT Executive Council (ITEC), which sets statewide IT policy and standards — the rules new solutions must meet.
Office of Procurement and Contracts (Dept. of Administration) Central purchasing / statewide contracts	Owns the contract vehicles and supplier portal — the path onto Kansas statewide IT contracts.

News & Signals

May 2026

Whole-of-StateCybersecurity

Kansas launches whole-of-state shared IT/cyber services under SB 51 (signed April 2026)

SB 51 authorizes OITS to sell IT and cybersecurity services to local governments, schools, hospitals, and nonprofits on a chargeback model — a new, much larger buying audience. Position Dell infrastructure, endpoint, and managed/security services behind the OITS shared-services offer to locals as well as agencies.

Apr 2026

CybersecurityLegislation

HB 2574 enacted (signed ~April 9, 2026) — makes cyber requirements permanent, ties agency compliance to budget

Removes sunset on state cybersecurity requirements, mandates annual CISO compliance/maturity assessments reported to the legislature (which can withhold IT funding for unremediated gaps), strengthens KISO authority, and creates a judicial-branch technology oversight council. Compliance pressure accelerates security tooling and remediation spend across agencies.

Jan 2026

Budget

Governor's FY2027 budget continues OITS consolidation funding; ~171.75 OITS FTE requested

Confirms the consolidation/shared-services build-out is funded into FY2027 — keep infrastructure and managed-services plays mapped to the roadmap.

Oct 2025

Consolidation

Gartner-led SB 291 IT current-state assessment wraps; 2026 integration planning begins

Assessment phase ends and execution planning starts — the window where consolidated infrastructure, security, and migration spend gets scoped.

Aug 2025

Leadership

OITS adds Chief IT Architect and other executive-team hires

New architecture and operations leadership shapes enterprise standards — fresh relationships to build at the platform-decision level.

Jun 2025

Kansas executive branch operating under statewide generative AI acceptable-use policy

AI governance is active; position AI-ready infrastructure and compliant solutions to the policy's guardrails.