Douglas County staff recommend $200,000 project to connect AI with county systems
The proposed project would build a reusable connection layer and test it through a use case selected by the county and DevIQ.
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Douglas County staff recommended a proposed $200,000 agreement with DVHP Inc., doing business as DevIQ, to build and test a reusable way for artificial intelligence tools to connect with county data and applications. The design is intended to avoid creating a separate connection for each system; the proposal is not a software subscription or a countywide rollout.
The work would include an assessment of relevant county systems, a reference architecture, initial security and governance guidance, and working software to test the design. The county and DevIQ would choose the test use case, systems, success criteria and implementation boundaries during project mobilization.
The proposed design would address least-privilege access, identity and authorization controls, credential management, data protection, separation of environments, and logging and auditing. It would also define which actions an AI system could take; any ability to write data or conduct transactions would require explicit scope and authorization. These are planned design measures, not guarantees about every county system or future integration.
The agreement estimates three to four months of work, with an indicative 16-week plan, but the project start and completion dates remain to be agreed. Its proposed term runs from Nov. 1, 2026, through Oct. 31, 2027, subject to appropriations and county satisfaction. The agreement would not bind the county until all county signatories execute it.
The $200,000 estimate is based on time and materials: a provisional average rate of $250 an hour and about 800 hours of combined capacity. Hosting, third-party licenses and AI-model usage are excluded and would require separate agreement. The work could also produce implementation findings, a prioritized roadmap, rough estimates for possible future work and training materials for county staff. Enterprise-wide integration, ongoing operations and later project increments are outside the proposal and would require separate approval.
The staff recommendation is not a board approval. The official meeting record says the Board of County Commissioners’ Oct. 27 business meeting was rescheduled to Nov. 3; it does not establish whether the DevIQ proposal will be considered at that meeting.