Trybus Solutions works with state agencies, counties, cities and towns, public safety agencies and utility districts on the technology underneath public services. That covers wired and wireless networks, communications and contact center, security and segmentation, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, the devices staff use, and support.
Something has usually already happened by the time we are called. A platform is coming up on end of support. A grant has been awarded with a period of performance attached. An audit or an insurance renewal has produced findings with dates on them. Or a phone system old enough to predate the current emergency calling rules has become somebody's problem.
Most of our public sector clients have their own IT team, and in a smaller jurisdiction that team may be two people covering everything. We are there for the parts that need people who have worked inside a public agency before, and who treat the purchase order as part of the project. This page is about the environment; the service pages below describe the work.
Depending on the amount and the jurisdiction, the route to a purchase is an informal quote, a sealed bid, a request for proposals, a cooperative contract somebody else already competed, or a documented sole-source justification. The scope of work becomes the contract, so it has to be right before it is published. Our procurement can work inside your purchasing system.
Federal rules require a multi-line telephone system to allow 911 to be dialed without a prefix, to notify somebody on site when a call is placed, and to convey a location precise enough to find the caller inside the building. In a courthouse or a public works garage that means room-level data and not one street address.
A message in a chat channel, a voicemail, a meeting recording and a recorded call on a service line are public records in most states, and a request for them can arrive years later. Retention comes from a records schedule that rarely matches a platform default, so export, legal hold and search belong in the design.
A resident cannot take a permit application, a utility bill or a 911 call to a competitor. That changes the resilience conversation, because the fallback has to be something counter staff and dispatchers can run during an outage and have practiced. We ask what the counter does while the system is down, and who decides to invoke it.
Public budgets do not follow a commercial year. Many jurisdictions appropriate one year at a time and lapse whatever is not spent. Capital and operating money are approved by separate votes, and grant funding adds a second clock with its own period of performance. A project staged across two budget years is often the only version funded.
One estate can run from a courthouse built a century ago, to a treatment plant with its own control network, to a fire station, a vehicle garage and a remote pump site on one thin circuit. Older buildings frequently have no usable pathway, and some carry preservation restrictions. We survey them and specify what the design needs before anyone sets a date.
We hold partner relationships across the technology industry, and our engineers also work in platforms we do not sell. A public sector project starts on whatever is already installed, whoever supplied it, and often on equipment bought under a contract that has since expired.
We do not publish comparisons between manufacturers. Which platform suits an organization is something an assessment works out, not something a website should decide.
Public sector IT departments usually know what needs doing. What they do not control is the calendar it has to happen on, and a proposal that ignores that gets deferred rather than declined.
Seven service lines. A public sector project usually draws on several.
Main lines and department numbers, contact center for utility billing, permitting and citizen service lines, council chamber technology, and the emergency calling, recording and retention obligations designed in from the start.
Coverage across a scattered estate, wired refresh inside occupied and historic buildings, links out to remote sites, and segmentation that keeps administrative networks, plant control systems and public safety apart.
Identity and multi-factor authentication for staff, elected officials and contractors, segmentation around criminal justice and control systems, controlled third-party access for the vendors who support them, and logging that produces evidence an auditor accepts.
Compute, storage and backup for records, case, billing and permitting systems, designed around statutory retention periods, recovery expectations the public will notice, and copies a ransomware event cannot reach.
Shared counter workstations used by several people in a shift, laptops and tablets out with field crews, and lifecycle work that keeps a device estate consistent across departments that bought separately.
Control mapping, policy and audit evidence against the frameworks you already answer to, grant and award conditions, vendor risk, and the job of turning a finding with a date on it into completed work.
Ongoing operation and support as a separate agreement, with auditable records of the access used and the work performed. Some clients hand over everything and some use us selectively.
Written for estates where the funding year and the project year do not match.
Tell us what is running, which buildings it covers and what contract vehicle or procurement route you have to use. We will tell you what we think the work involves.
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