SecurityZeal
Awarded ITSAC Contract Holder
SecurityZeal LLC provides temporary IT staffing resources — from interns to highly specialized AI, cloud, security, data and project professionals — to Texas state agencies, local government, public education and other eligible customers under DIR Contract DIR-CPO-5641, at or below DIR not-to-exceed hourly rates.
SecurityZeal LLC is an approved vendor through the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) and offers Information Technology Staff Augmentation Contract (ITSAC) services under DIR-CPO-5641. ITSAC provides temporary IT staff on an as-needed, hourly basis. Contracted staff work under the direction and supervision of the customer and are billed hourly at rates that may not exceed the contract's not-to-exceed (NTE) schedule.
This contract is for hourly IT staff augmentation only. It does not cover deliverables-based projects such as outsourced system integration or application development, and no hardware or software products may be sold through it.
Texas customers who need deliverables-based IT services should use DIR's Deliverables-Based IT Services (DBITS) program. SecurityZeal's separate DBITS contract, DIR-CPO-6220, is described on its own page and is not part of this ITSAC offering.
Under DIR-CPO-5641, SecurityZeal provides temporary IT staffing resources in every ITSAC job category, title and level defined in Appendix D, at hourly rates that never exceed the Appendix C schedule. Customers may solicit individual candidates by category, title and level, or a team or retainer of staff types through a Statement of Work.
Temporary IT staff augmentation on a time (hourly) basis. Resources are placed with the customer, work under the customer's direction and oversight, and are invoiced monthly against approved timesheets. Engagements can be filled from a single Request for Resumes or run as an ongoing retainer under an ITSAC SOW.
Each title is offered at seven experience levels defined by DIR, so customers can match the resource to the work — from entry-level interns to senior specialists.
Titles listed per the DIR ITSAC 579 Category, Title and Level schedule. Full title descriptions and qualifications are in Appendix D; maximum hourly rates by title and level are in Appendix C. SecurityZeal can also staff "Undefined Title" roles within a category where the customer defines the title in its solicitation.
Every SecurityZeal candidate is pre-screened for technical depth, communication skills and public-sector environment fit before being submitted on an ITSAC solicitation. These are the ITSAC titles where our bench is strongest.
LLM fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, agentic system design, computer vision, NLP and production ML deployment for government environments.
AWS, Azure and GCP architects, Kubernetes engineers, Terraform/IaC specialists and CI/CD pipeline engineers for cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure.
SOC analysts, Zero Trust architects, SIEM engineers, TX-RAMP/FedRAMP/NIST compliance and penetration testing for public-sector security programs.
Statistical modeling, data engineering, BI development and data governance for analytics programs, dashboards and data warehouses.
PMP-certified and SAFe-trained managers experienced with the Texas Project Delivery Framework and large-scale government IT initiatives.
React, Node.js, Java, .NET and Python developers for web applications, API engineering, legacy modernization and ERP customization.
The ITSAC process is customer-led and competitive. Here is how an engagement with SecurityZeal typically runs.
The following documents govern the terms, rates and job categories applicable to this contract. They are the official copies posted by DIR; the complete set is also available on the DIR contract page.
DIR program resources: ITSAC 579 Category, Title, Level & NTE Rates; Job Category Title Descriptions; ITSAC Portal Customer User Guide.
SecurityZeal LLC adheres to its then-currently published policies concerning services warranties and returns. Such policies for DIR customers are not more restrictive or more costly than SecurityZeal's warranty and return policies for other similarly situated customers for like services. Under DIR-CPO-5641, if a placed resource is removed at a customer's request, SecurityZeal provides a substitute resource at no additional cost in accordance with the contract's worker-substitution terms.
Describe the ITSAC resources you are looking for and Kiran Bajwa will respond within one business day with a quote or candidate profiles. No obligation; quotes are provided at no charge.
Enterprise, federal and private-sector organizations that are not eligible DIR customers can engage SecurityZeal for commercial staff augmentation (contract, contract-to-hire and surge) by emailing hr@securityzeal.com. Those engagements are outside DIR Contract DIR-CPO-5641 and are not subject to its terms or rates.