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We publish our terms. Procurement notices.

Public-sector buyers evaluate software vendors on questions most firms answer vaguely: What exactly does the estimate include? What happens after delivery? How fast do you respond, in writing? Our answers are already published: a written estimate with stated assumptions, a 180-day defect warranty, and committed response times in business hours, because they're the same terms every client gets.

We've delivered for public-mission organizations including PIDC, Philadelphia's public-private economic development corporation. The work rewards the same habits government requires anyway: documentation as a deliverable, decisions that leave an audit trail, and systems designed for the decade, not the demo.

Working vocabulary
Section 508WCAG 2.1 AARFP / RFQ responseAudit-ready documentation

What keeps going wrong

The problems this sector actually brings us.

Vendors who can't survive procurement

RFP responses fall apart when a firm's actual terms are improvised per deal. Ours are standing policy (estimate guarantee, warranty, response times, Net 30), which makes the compliance matrix short and the reference checks boring.

Accessibility as a mandate, not a preference

Section 508 and WCAG conformance are contractual in public work. We build to WCAG AA as a baseline practice; it's in our healthcare and university work too, where the same mandates apply.

Systems that outlast administrations

Public systems change hands: between staff, between vendors, between administrations. Runbooks, knowledge transfer, and architecture a successor can pick up are line items in our estimates, not favors.

Clients in this sector

  • Government

    Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp.

Government & Public Sector

Working inside these constraints right now?

Tell us what you're up against. We'll respond within two business days. That's one of the terms.