Texas AI Docket

Houston-Galveston Area Council put AI consulting services on its HGACBuy purchasing catalog under contract AI05-26

State policyHouston-Galveston Area Council (HGACBuy)HarrisWrite to the decider

HGACBuy is the cooperative purchasing program run by the Houston-Galveston Area Council. It publishes an active contract numbered AI05-26 titled AI Consulting Services. The term runs from May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2030. The catalog describes the work as comprehensive guidance through the array of possible solutions where artificial intelligence can be integrated. Five vendors are listed as awarded on the contract page. This is the procurement plumbing behind a lot of Texas government AI work. A contract vehicle is how a small city or district buys a service without running its own solicitation.

How to take part

The contract, its awarded vendors and the product listings are published on the HGACBuy site and can be viewed by anyone. Buying from it requires being an HGACBuy member organization. A member of the public participates through their own city, county or district rather than directly.

Where to do it

Where

1 county. In Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands.

Timeline

  1. effective

    Start of the contract term shown on the HGACBuy contract page

  2. Today

How this decision moved

One dated line per check, oldest first. A line that says nothing changed means somebody looked and it had not.

  1. 2026-08-19

    Checked and unchanged. The cooperative contract for artificial intelligence consulting runs from May 1st, 2026 to April 30th, 2030 and remains active, with 27 qualified contractors listed against it.

  2. 2026-08-22

    Checked and unchanged. The cooperative contract for artificial intelligence consulting services still runs from May 1st, 2026 to April 30th, 2030 and is still listed as active on the purchasing catalog.

  3. 2026-08-26

    Checked and unchanged. Contract AI05-26 for AI consulting services still runs from May 1st, 2026 to April 30th, 2030 and the product listing still carries the same service description. The cooperative has changed how it prints the contract term and the quote is corrected to the form the page shows now.

  4. 2026-08-29

    Checked and unchanged. The contract is still live on the cooperative purchasing site and artificial intelligence consulting is still listed among the services a member government may buy through it. The suppliers offering it are unchanged.

  5. 2026-09-02

    The purchasing contract is still listed as active and its category is unchanged.

  6. 2026-09-05

    AI consulting services are still on the regional council's purchasing catalog and the contract behind them is unchanged.

  7. 2026-09-08

    AI consulting services are still listed on the regional council's purchasing catalog under the same contract, so any member government can still buy them without running its own procurement.

  8. 2026-09-09

    Artificial intelligence consulting is still on the regional council's purchasing schedule, so any member government can still buy it without running its own procurement.

  9. 2026-09-12

    Artificial intelligence consulting is still on the regional council's purchasing schedule, so a member government can still buy it without running its own procurement.

  10. 2026-09-13

    Artificial intelligence consulting is still on the regional council's purchasing schedule, so a member government can still buy it without running a procurement of its own.

  11. 2026-09-16

    The purchasing catalog still carries artificial intelligence consulting, so any member government can still buy it without running its own procurement. The listing is unchanged.

  12. 2026-09-19

    The consulting services are still on the purchasing catalog under the same contract, so any member government can still buy from it without running its own procurement.

  13. 2026-09-24

    The consulting services are still on the purchasing catalog under the same contract, open to any member government.

  14. 2026-09-27

    The consulting services are still listed on the purchasing catalog under the same contract, open to member governments.

  15. 2026-09-30

    The purchasing cooperative still lists artificial intelligence consulting on its contract, under the same supplier.

The evidence

Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.

Effective Dates 05/01/2026 - 04/30/2030
HGACBuy, Contract AI05-26 AI Consulting Services Primary source, official · hgacbuy.org
comprehensive guidance through the array of possible solutions where Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be integrated
HGACBuy, Contract AI05-26 AI Consulting Services Primary source, official · hgacbuy.org
AI consulting; IT consulting; artificial intelligence; system design; data modeling; semantic layer design; dashboard development; platform administration; AI and BI enhancement.
HGACBuy, Artificial intelligence consulting and related services, contract AI05-26 Primary source, official · hgacbuy.org

Questions about this decision

Answered from the record itself. Every answer is assembled from stored fields, so an answer the record has no basis for is left out rather than guessed.

What is this decision?

HGACBuy is the cooperative purchasing program run by the Houston-Galveston Area Council. It publishes an active contract numbered AI05-26 titled AI Consulting Services. The term runs from May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2030. The catalog describes the work as comprehensive guidance through the array of possible solutions where artificial intelligence can be integrated. Five vendors are listed as awarded on the contract page. This is the procurement plumbing behind a lot of Texas government AI work. A contract vehicle is how a small city or district buys a service without running its own solicitation.

Who decides it?

Houston-Galveston Area Council (HGACBuy) decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.

Can the public take part?

The contract, its awarded vendors and the product listings are published on the HGACBuy site and can be viewed by anyone. Buying from it requires being an HGACBuy member organization. A member of the public participates through their own city, county or district rather than directly. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.

Where in Texas does it apply?

It covers Harris County in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX area.

Has it been decided?

It has been decided. The dates on the item page carry when.

What happens next?

No future date is on the record. The last dated step on it was effective on May 1st.

When did it start?

The earliest date on its record is May 1st, 2026.

What kind of decision is it?

It is filed under state policy.

What sources back it?

Two sources back it. Two of them are primary.

Is it on the ERCOT grid?

Yes. It sits inside the ERCOT interconnection.

When was it last checked?

Every fact on it was last verified against its source on September 30th, 2026.

Cite this

Texas AI Docket, Houston-Galveston Area Council put AI consulting services on its HGACBuy purchasing catalog under contract AI05-26. Tracked since May 1st, 2026. Last verified September 30th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0054/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0054.

Beat

Filed under State policy, with every other decision on that beat.

Last checked 2026-09-30