Reports & Documents

This guidance was created by Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech) in collaboration with the Washington State Office of Equity (OOE) and other partners pursuant to the Governor's Executive Order 24-01. The purpose is to provide guidance that state agencies can use to analyze the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology on vulnerable communities.

WaTech’s state Office of Cybersecurity (OCS), established under RCW 43.105.450, oversees and enhances cybersecurity across Washington state government. As mandated by RCW 43.105.460, OCS is tasked with developing, maintaining, and regularly updating a comprehensive catalog of cybersecurity services. The 2024 catalog emphasizes its vital impact on the state’s digital infrastructure, data security, and operational resiliency through various services.

This site provides both a priority ranking of proposed decision packages (DP) and funding, and gating recommendations for decision packages containing information technology (IT) budget requests for the FY25-27 biennial budget. 

As required under Executive Order 24-01 on Artificial Intelligence, this report provides an assessment of potential generative AI initiatives pertinent to agency operations and objectives, as well as the feasibility, benefits, and challenges of integrating generative AI into agency operations and services. This report also includes a plan and timeline for WaTech to establish the infrastructure to conduct pilots of projects involving generative AI technology, including approved environments to test such projects.

This guidance was created by Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech) in collaboration with the Department of Enterprise Services (DES) and other partners pursuant to the Governor's Executive Order 24-01 to develop initial guidance on the procurement and use of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) technology.

This report on the Innovation & Modernization Program, required by Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5187 provides a detailed look at the estimated and actual costs, project timelines, and business results of the approved projects. It also shares lessons learned and provides recommendations for future project proposals, emphasizing the importance of early planning, strategic vendor relationships, and active program oversight.

This is the guide for the 2024 Annual Certification Survey.

Semi-annual report by Project Management Partners (PMP) highlighting efforts made between November 2023 - May 2024 to improve the sharing of information within the IT project management community.

This document shows Central Service Model (CSM) allocation billing changes for the month of June 2024 as well as Fiscal Year 2025 and the impact to each state agencies.

This document aims to provide an overview of a whole-of-state approach to cybersecurity and explain the urgent need to establish a Strategic Threat Intelligence Center (STIC) to act as a central cybersecurity intelligence and response hub for all state, local, and Tribal governments in Washington.

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This report highlights progress made implementing the state strategic Information Technology plan from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2023. The report covers a broad array of business issues that affect technology solutions across the state, including efforts to attract and retain an IT workforce, oversight of major projects and staying abreast of evolving privacy and cyber threats.

This annual report highlights the independent observations and recommendations made by Project Management Partners (PMPs), as mandated in Washington state legislative requirements.

Quarterly Pulse Survey report that captures in the moment customer satisfaction feedback. The teams that participated in this quarter’s report are the Cloud Enablement Team, Support Center Team, and the State Data Center Team. 

This report provides a forecast of supplier diversity for procurements.

Semi-annual report by Project Management Partners (PMP) highlighting efforts made between May 2023 - October 2023 to share IT project management best practices.

This document provides both a priority ranking of proposed decision packages (DP) and funding, and gating recommendations for decision packages containing information technology (IT) budget requests for the FY23- 25 supplemental biennial budget.

Semi-annual report by Project Management Partners (PMP) highlighting efforts made between October 2022 - April 2023 to share IT project management best practices.

Annual report from Washington state agencies on their technology portfolio and compliance with selected statewide policies that support enterprise technology programs.

Per RCW 43.105.11, WaTech is required to produce a quarterly dashboard that includes information about service delivery, cost, operational efficiencies, and overall customer satisfaction. The first dashboard was created and submitted in January 2017.

WaTech collects a variety of data about the status, health, and performance of technology across the state. This data includes statewide IT portfolio trends, IT expenditure data, and data about the performance of enterprise technology programs.

This annual report highlights the independent observations and recommendations made by Project Management Partners (PMPs), as mandated in Washington state legislative requirements.

This document provides both a priority ranking of proposed decision packages (DP) and funding, and gating recommendations for decision packages containing information technology (IT) budget requests for the FY23-25 biennial budget.

Semi-annual report by Project Management Partners (PMP) highlighting efforts made in 2022 to share IT project management best practices.

Annual report from Washington state agencies on their technology portfolio and compliance with selected statewide policies that support enterprise technology programs.

This report contains cybersecurity services and functions that can be performed by the office, as well as core capabilities and competencies of the office, and other information about cybersecurity in state government.

Semi-annual report by Project Management Partners (PMP) highlighting efforts made between January 2022 to April 2022 to share IT project management best practices.

This annual report highlights the independent observations and recommendations made by Project Management Partners (PMPs), as mandated in Washington state legislative requirements.

This report was developed to address the requirements of RCW 43.105.220. It contains an analysis of progress made toward implementing the state's strategic technology plan, an evaluation of information technology performance, and an analysis of major project performance and outcomes.

This document provides both a priority ranking of proposed decision packages (DP) and funding, and gating recommendations for decision packages containing information technology (IT) budget requests for the FY21- 23 supplemental biennial budget.

This report contains findings, best practices and recommendations related to cybersecurity, privacy and data sharing. Required by Chapter 291, Laws of 2021 Sec. 4 (SB 5432).

Semi-annual report by Project Management Partners (PMP) highlighting efforts made between September 2021 to December 2021 to share IT project management best practices.

This memo addresses the requirement of Section 701(12) of the 2021-23 Operating Budget and Section 701(10) of the 2021-23 Transportation Budget: The office of the chief information officer must report on July 1 and December 1 each calendar year any additional projects to be subjected to this section that were identified in the previous six month period to the legislative fiscal committees.

Dashboard that contains IT spend information for the state of Washington and used to prepare the next biennial budget. 

This report contains recommendations and principles for policy changes related to the development, procurement, and use of automated decision systems in Washington. Required by the 21-23 operating budget, section 151(14).

This report was developed to address the requirements of RCW 43.105.220. It contains an analysis of progress made toward implementing the state's strategic technology plan, an evaluation of information technology performance, and an analysis of major project performance and outcomes.

This report contains the findings and recommendations related to the impacts on labor of transitioning to the cloud, and associated training needs.

Summary report of WaTech's customer satisfaction survey distributed to 144 Chief Information Officers and Chief Information Security Officers at state agencies and public schools.

Accessible version of the Enterprise IT Strategic Plan 2021-2025.