6-6 ATTACHMENT SIX EIR.pdf

ATTACHMENT SIX

[OPTION (INCLUDE THIS ATTACHMENT IF CONTRACTOR WILL PROVIDE “ELECTRONIC AND

INFORMATION RESOURCES” AS DEFINED BY §2054.451, GOVERNMENT CODE):

ATTACHMENT SIX (BONFIRE QUESTIONNAIRE)

ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION RESOURCES ENVIRONMENT SPECIFICATIONS

The specifications, representations, warranties and agreements set forth in Proposer’s responses to this ATTACHMENT SIX will be incorporated into the Agreement.

University is primarily a [OPTION:______________] [ALTERNATE OPTION: Microsoft products] environment.

Accessibility Information

Proposer must provide the following accessibility information for the electronic and information resources (EIRs)1 products or services proposed by Proposer, where applicable, through one or more of the following methods, as required by 1 TAC §213.38(b):

(A) inclusion in its proposal of (or URLs to) manufacturer pages of completed Voluntary Product

Accessibility Templates (VPATs)2 or accessibility conformance reports (ACRs)3 for applicable Commercial Off the Shelf products / or services;

(B) inclusion in its proposal of other documents / forms that provide credible evidence of the Proposer's capability or ability to produce accessible EIR products and services. Such evidence may include, but is not limited to, Proposer's internal accessibility policy documents, contractual warranties for accessibility, accessibility testing documents, and examples of prior work results; or

(C) inclusion in its proposal of the URL to a web page which explains how to request completed ACRs or

VPATs for any product Proposer proposes to provide to the University under any contract resulting from this RFP.

If Proposer cannot provide credible accessibility documentation for an EIR, then the Proposer’s EIR shall be considered noncompliant.

1 Electronic and information resources are defined in §2054.451, Government Code and 1 TAC §213.1 (9).

2 A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template is a vendor-supplied form for a commercial off-the-shelf Electronic and Information Resource used to document its compliance with technical accessibility standards and specifications. See 1 TAC §213.1 (22).

For further information, see this VPAT document provided by the Information Technology Industry Council.

3 Accessibility conformance reports are an accessibility report of an EIR item's compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended, 29 U.S.C. §794(d), 36 C.F.R. §1194.1, that is created using a VPAT template. See 1 TAC §213.1 (1).

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2054.htm#2054.451 http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=1&pt=10&ch=213&rl=38 http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2054.htm#2054.451 http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=1&pt=10&ch=213&rl=1 http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=1&pt=10&ch=213&rl=1 https://www.itic.org/policy/accessibility/vpat http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=1&pt=10&ch=213&rl=1

ATTACHMENT SIX

[OPTION (INCLUDE THIS ATTACHMENT IF CONTRACTOR IS PROVIDING INFORMATION

RESOURCES TO UNIVERSITY FOR UNIVERSITY’S USE. Pursuant to UTS165 “Information Resources” means any and all computer printouts, online display devices, mass storage media, and all computer-related activities involving any device capable of receiving email, browsing Web sites, or otherwise capable of receiving, storing, managing, or transmitting Data including, but not limited to, mainframes, servers, Network Infrastructure, personal computers, notebook computers, hand-held computers, personal digital assistant (PDA), pagers, distributed processing systems, network attached and computer controlled medical and laboratory equipment (i.e. embedded technology), telecommunication resources, network environments, telephones, fax machines, printers and service bureaus. Additionally, it is the procedures, equipment, facilities, software, and Data that are designed, built, operated, and maintained to create, collect, record, process, store, retrieve, display, and transmit information.

ALSO INCLUDE THIS ATTACHMENT IF CONTRACTOR WILL ACCESS, CREATE, MAINTAIN AND OR

TRANSMIT UNIVERSITY DATA. Pursuant to UTS165, “Data” means recorded data, regardless of form or media in which it may be recorded, which constitute the original data necessary to support the business of UT System or original observations and methods of a study and the analyses of such original data that are necessary to support research activities and validate research findings. Data includes, but is not limited to: printed records, observations and notes; electronic data; video and audio records, photographs and negatives.)

http://www.utsystem.edu/board-of-regents/policy-library/policies/uts165-information-resources-use-and-security-policy http://www.utsystem.edu/board-of-regents/policy-library/policies/uts165-information-resources-use-and-security-policy

Accessibility Information