Overview
The Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB) is Michigan's central support agency — it consolidates information technology for nearly all of state government, runs central procurement, and houses the State Budget Office. State IT is almost entirely centralized inside DTMB rather than spread across agencies, which makes it the single most important enterprise relationship for selling technology into Michigan.
DTMB's CIO organization spans the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Agency Services (the IT teams embedded with each department), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection (CIP), and the Center for Shared Solutions.
On the buying side, DTMB's Central Procurement Services is the state's purchasing authority and operates MiDEAL, the extended-purchasing co-op that lets Michigan cities, counties, school districts, universities, community colleges, and nonprofit hospitals buy off state contracts without running their own solicitations. DTMB is also where statewide AI and cyber policy is set — it has published the state's AI strategy and adoption guidelines and is the proposed home for a new AI governing board.
- DTMB is the technology buying center — statewide IT is centralized here, spanning the CIO/CTO organization, Agency Services, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection (CIP), and the Center for Shared Solutions
- The Legislature appropriates the budget, and the State Budget Office — run by the same director as DTMB — shapes what gets funded, including the ITIF modernization pool
- DTMB Central Procurement Services is the approval gate for statewide contracts; agency IT leads within Agency Services sponsor department-level buys
- Fastest compliant path: DTMB statewide contracts via Contract Connect for state agencies, or the MiDEAL co-op for the broader local government, K-12, higher-ed, and nonprofit-hospital market
Where Dell Can Play
- Confirm Dell's statewide-contract and MiDEAL coverage — it's the access path to Michigan state agencies plus locals, K-12, and higher-ed, not just DTMB.
- Lead enterprise: because IT is centralized in DTMB, position infrastructure, client, and services as enterprise standards through the CIO/CTO organization rather than agency-by-agency.
- Tie AI-infrastructure and compute to the state's AI strategy and chatbot rollout; align to DTMB's published AI guidelines and the pending governance board.
- Map the new leadership early — build with acting CIO Eric Swanson (and CSS) and acting director Kyle Guerrant before priorities harden.
- Engage CIP and Michigan Cyber Partners on resilience, identity, and endpoint to support one of the nation's top-ranked state cyber programs.
Budget & Fiscal
DTMB's leverage is structural: because Michigan centralizes IT here, most state technology spend and most public-sector contract access flow through this one department. Its own modernization money is concentrated in the Information Technology Investment Fund (ITIF), which rose to $50.0M in FY2025-26 from $35.0M the prior year — the pool that funds legacy-system modernization and transformation projects.
- Much of DTMB's IT delivery is funded through cost recovery / interdepartmental charges to the agencies it serves, not a single large general-fund line.
- The DTMB director also serves as State Budget Director, so this department sits at the center of both technology and appropriations decisions.
- Confirm current enacted figures against the House/Senate Fiscal Agency DTMB budget briefings before forecasting — appropriation detail shifts each budget cycle.
Initiatives & Priorities
DTMB published Michigan's AI strategy and formal adoption/usage guidelines, and began rolling out a Retrieval-Augmented-Generation public chatbot — starting with Unemployment Insurance content — with the stated goal of a unified assistant across the state's ~110 Michigan.gov sites. Strong pull for AI-ready infrastructure, data, and GPU/compute.
AI ModernizationLegislation would create a three-member AI governing board inside DTMB and a generative-AI pilot for state employees/agencies, with the pilot required to be operational by Jan 1, 2027 and a public evaluation report to the legislature. It cleared the House Communications & Technology Committee unanimously on May 19, 2026 and moved to Rules. Watch as the policy gate that will shape what AI offerings are buyable.
AI PolicyThe Information Technology Investment Fund (now $50.0M) bankrolls modernization of aging state systems and service-delivery transformation. The recurring funding line to map opportunities against — infrastructure refresh, cloud, and application modernization.
Modernization InfrastructureDTMB's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection organization runs enterprise security; Michigan's cyber program is consistently ranked among the strongest of any state. Continued investment in resilience, endpoint, and identity is a durable theme.
Cybersecurity ResilienceProcurement
Selling into Michigan runs through DTMB's Central Procurement Services and its statewide contracts — and, for the broader public sector, through the MiDEAL co-op. Confirm Dell's relevant statewide/MiDEAL contract coverage first; it's the access path to far more than DTMB itself.
| Vehicle / gate | What it means for Dell |
|---|---|
| MiDEAL (Extended Purchasing Program) | The state's cooperative co-op since 1984: Michigan cities, townships, villages, counties, school districts, universities, community colleges, and nonprofit hospitals can buy off competitively bid state contracts for a nominal annual fee — without running their own RFP. |
| Statewide contracts / Central Procurement Services | DTMB Central Procurement Services is the state's central purchasing authority; statewide contracts are the primary route for agencies to buy technology, hardware, and services. |
| Contract Connect | DTMB's portal for searching current contracts and open solicitations — the place to confirm vehicle coverage and track upcoming RFPs. |
Spend Signals
GovSpend · as of Aug 10, 2026Dell vs. competitors (spend, payee)
Open bids / RFPs
| Solicitation | Due |
|---|---|
| Newborn Screening LIMS (RFP) Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget | Aug 10, 2026 |
| ITN 260000000034 Cisco Systems Inc Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Unclaimed Property System (Request for Proposal) Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget | Aug 24, 2026 |
| MiConnect Maintenance & Operations (RFP) Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget | Sep 4, 2026 |
| Statewide Telecommunication Products and Services (Request for Information) Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget | Sep 9, 2026 |
- Michigan's fiscal year runs October–September; this window is 2022-10-01 to 2025-09-30 (FY2023–FY2025), consistent with the DTMB budget-briefing basis.
- Dell Marketing LP's $234.5M payee figure (GovSpend agencyId 80465) is almost entirely “Systems, General Software — General Software Maintenance” line items (three POs alone total over $109M) — not Dell hardware. A dedicated product-name text match (dell, poweredge, optiplex, latitude, precision, powerstore, wyse, isilon) across this agency's own PO records returned zero matching line items in the window, and the same zero result held for Cisco/HPE/Lenovo/Apple brand terms — so dellFootprint and brandFootprint are omitted rather than estimated. Real Dell and competitor hardware buying in Michigan shows up downstream, in individual department, university, and K-12 GovSpend agency records (confirmed e.g. at the University of Michigan and local school districts), which sit outside DTMB's own consolidated agency record.
- LineItem.Category is not populated for this agency's records, so a categories breakdown is omitted.
- DTMB is a vehicle owner, not solely an end consumer — its contract book (e.g., the Michigan Master Computing Program hardware prequalification, Oracle, Cisco, Tyler Technologies) is statewide master agreements held on behalf of other state agencies and, via MiDEAL, local government/education/nonprofit buyers. Because agency-as-buyer and vehicle-owner can't be reliably separated in the contracts data, expiringContracts is omitted (consistent with how this was handled for other central-procurement accounts). Re-checked 2026-08-05–2027-02-28: 253 contract records still exist in this window and remain dominated by the same statewide master-agreement pattern (e.g. carpet/flooring statewide contract, MDOC prisoner telephone service, McKinsey digital-tools engagement), so the panel remains omitted.
- Only 5 of DTMB's 59 open GovSpend bids due 2026-08-05 or later are IT-relevant (Newborn Screening LIMS; an ITN for Cisco Systems; Unclaimed Property System; MiConnect Maintenance & Operations; Statewide Telecommunication Products and Services RFI) — the rest is facilities/construction/services work (HVAC, siding, park equipment, janitorial, dam rehabilitation) DTMB runs on behalf of other state agencies, reflecting its role as the state's general procurement and facilities agency, not just IT.
- Figures are estimates: text-matching can include minor false positives, and source contract $ are often unpublished.
Power Structure
| Decision-maker | Why they matter |
|---|---|
| Kyle Guerrant Acting Director, DTMB (and State Budget Director) | Appointed acting director in January 2026; the department's top executive across IT, procurement, and budget. |
| Eric Swanson Acting Chief Information Officer, State of Michigan | Named acting CIO by Gov. Whitmer on Dec 19, 2025 after Laura Clark's departure; 35-year state veteran, also leads the Center for Shared Solutions. The top enterprise-IT relationship. |
| Manuel Rosales Acting Chief Technology Officer, DTMB | Named acting CTO in Dec 2025 after Rex Menold moved to Chief Security Officer; the CTO office sets enterprise standards and platforms — a key buying center for infrastructure and AI. Seat still filled on an acting basis; verify against a permanent hire. |
| Rex Menold Chief Security Officer, State of Michigan (CIP) | Longtime DTMB technology leader (former CTO) who transitioned to CSO in Dec 2025; leads Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Protection, which owns statewide cyber strategy/operations and runs Michigan Cyber Partners outreach to local governments. |
| Central Procurement Services (DTMB) State purchasing authority & MiDEAL | Owns statewide contracts, solicitations, and the MiDEAL co-op — the path onto Michigan's contract vehicles. |
News & Signals
Sources
- Michigan DTMB — Leadership
- Michigan DTMB — About MiDEAL
- Michigan DTMB — Procurement (Central Procurement Services / Contract Connect)
- Gov. Whitmer Announces Eric Swanson as Acting Chief Information Officer (Dec 19, 2025)
- Gov. Whitmer Announces Acting Director (Kyle Guerrant) at DTMB (Jan 27, 2026)
- GovTech — Michigan CTO (Rex Menold) to Lead State's Cybersecurity as CSO (Jan 2026)
- GovTech — Michigan Bill (HB 5899) Seeks to Wrangle 'Wild West' of Gov AI Use (May 2026)
- Michigan Advance — AI creates a brave new world for state agencies (May 22, 2026)
- Michigan AI Strategy (NASCIO, 2025)
- Michigan House Fiscal Agency — DTMB FY2025-26 Budget Briefing (ITIF)
- Gov. Whitmer Signs Budget to Build on Strong Legacy (FY2027, Jul 21, 2026)
- CBS Detroit — Michigan lawmakers pass $75.2B 2027 state budget