Texas DIR/ESBD #67

Cloud Accreditation and Institutional Effectiveness Platform for Texas State Technical College

Texas State Technical College is seeking an enterprise-wide cloud platform to manage accreditation and institutional effectiveness. - Buyer: Texas State Technical College (TSTC), Strategic Sourcing Department and Strategic Procurement Division, Waco, Texas. - Solution requested: A cloud-hosted accreditation and institutional effectiveness platform; no specific OEM, product, or supplier is named. - Core capabilities: Assessment management; institutional, department, and unit-level planning; accreditation narratives and evidence management; faculty qualification tracking; configurable workflows; analytics, dashboards, and reporting; audit trails and role-based access. - Notable functionality and integrations: Learning-outcome and curriculum mapping, assessment data import and validation, improvement-plan tracking, version history, faculty-to-course qualification matching, single sign-on through SAML or ADFS, APIs, and integrations with Canvas/Canvas LMS, Colleague/Banner SIS, Workday, and other institutional systems. Reports should support Excel, CSV, and PDF exports with data provenance. - Products and quantities: One enterprise software platform is requested; no quantity, part number, or named platform OEM is specified. - Services: Implementation and configuration, data migration and validation, integrations, training for administrators, faculty, and power users, ongoing support and maintenance, and recurring licensing or subscription pricing. Optional modules and migration tiers should also be priced. - Supplier qualifications: The proposal should include a completed functional requirements matrix, solution and implementation details, itemized pricing, and references from three similar multi-campus higher-education institutions. - Named vendors/platforms in the requirements: Canvas/Canvas LMS, Colleague, Banner, and Workday are identified as potential integration systems, not as the requested solution provider.

Description

Texas State Technical College is seeking proposals for an enterprise-wide, cloud-hosted software platform for institutional effectiveness and related operations. The solution is to support assessment management, strategic and operational planning, accreditation management, faculty qualifications tracking, analytics, reporting, workflows, and integrations with institutional systems. The RFP seeks an integrated platform to streamline processes, replace redundant legacy tools, improve collaboration, and support compliance with institutional and regional accreditation standards. Proposals must be submitted through the bid response portal by January 5, 2027, at 3:00 PM.

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