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  But the window of opportunity for discretionary projects is closing faster than the gradual slowdown that was expected 18 months ago, said Rishi Sood, a research vice president at Gartner.
  
  The top companies in the market continue to derive revenue from proven lines of business and by positioning themselves for changes driven by external factors, such as the federal push for electronic health records or biometric and database opportunities that have resulted from the 2005 Real ID Act.
  
  EDS Corp. positioned itself for human resources opportunities and Real ID work with state motor vehicle departments (DMVs) when it bought Saber Corp. for $420 million in November 2007, Sood said.
  
  Saber, of Portland, Ore., provides EDS "with an entry into agency modernization for human services that EDS has really never been able to penetrate before," Sood said.
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  Meanwhile, companies are scrambling to chase the last major growth opportunities in state and local government before the economic downturn becomes a firm reality, Sood said.Once the downturn is in full swing, he added, state and local customers will be checking to see if project proposals address the need to contain costs and generate revenue.
  
  "Those tend to be the projects that get a much faster green light than other projects when we get into this belt-tightening type of a world," he said.

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  "It's fair to say that there's a more outsourcing-led bent in a Republican-led administration then there would be in a traditionally Democratic-led administration," says Rishi Sood, of analyst firm Gartner Inc.
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  And don't be surprised if local and regional governments have more money for benefits-related technology as well, adds Rishi Sood, a research vice president at analyst company Gartner Inc.

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  A lot of vendors are pursuing e-government because "it gives them better mind share and thought leadership in the industry," said Rishi Sood, principal analyst, Gartner Dataquest, Stamford, Conn.
  
  Although it may not be the largest or most profitable market segment, it does have the distinction of being the fastest growing one, Sood said.
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  Companies with this expertise are finding it easy to add Web capabilities to projects they already are doing for state and local governments, Sood said.
  
  While some e-commerce firms might be lured to the state and local market by what they see as new business opportunities, there are significant industry characteristics that separate commercial vertical markets and public-sector organizations.
  
  E-commerce firms that are successful in the private sector often are not familiar with the key charters of many government organizations.What might be beneficial to a private-sector firm might be detrimental to a government agency.
  
  "Migrating that [commercial experience] to the government marketplace is not an easy step," Sood said.
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  Sood said that governments are fiscally sound after six years of tremendous economic growth and that a slowing economy probably would not affect a modest 7 percent growth rate over the short term.
  
  Across state agencies, the biggest growth is occurring in the areas of administration and finance, human services and transportation, followed by public safety, health and justice, in that order, according to Gartner Dataquest.

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  Rishi Sood is a principal analyst with Gartner Dataquest in Mountain View, Calif.His e-mail address is rishi.sood@gartner.com.

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  “IBM’s outsourcing wins have clearly created new revenue streams for them and have reasserted their footprint in the state and local market overall,†said Rishi Sood, vice president of government industry market strategies at Gartner.
  
  However, IBM hit a rough patch with its Texas outsourcing project in November when the state’s Department of Information Resources (DIR) issued a notice-to-cure, in which it gave the company a short amount of time to correct deficiencies in performance related to data backup. Before the month was over, though, Texas DIR announced that IBM was making noticeable progress on a plan to correct the situation.
  
  EDS also has made substantial gains in the market, Sood said. The company continues to capitalize on its 2007 acquisition of Saber Corp., which gave the company a broader portfolio and allowed it to go head-to-head with other tier one integrators for tax and human services modernizations, he said. EDS landed a $42.8 million project in June 2008 to modernize Ohio’s tax and revenue system by consolidating nearly two-dozen types of tax collections into a single system.
  
  “EDS appears to be building out its state and local business more aggressively than in years past,†Sood said, acknowledging the company’s ability to continue to win large Medicaid-related contracts and push into other market segments such as finance and administration and human services. “These represent a dramatic step forward for the company,†he added.
  
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  The $787 billion economic stimulus bill signed into law Feb. 17 by President Barack Obama provides tens of billions of dollars for highway construction, health IT, mass transit and water infrastructure modernization, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Although many of those areas are not traditionally associated with IT spending, any large-scale physical infrastructure modernization that would take place as a result of the stimulus is likely to have a technology component attached to it, Sood said.

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  "Clearly, the competitive landscape of state and local government has gotten much more intense," said Rishi Sood, research vice president with the market research and consulting firm Gartner Inc., based in Stamford, Conn.
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  Because of Northrop Grumman's success , the company has more than $500 million in annual state and local business , and a slowdown in some federal initiatives, integrators such as Computer Sciences Corp. and Science Applications International Corp. are exploring ways to overhaul their state and local practices, Sood said.
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  These companies are trying to understand how they can use their federal strengths to win state and local business in segments such as public safety, criminal justice and transportation as well as IT outsourcing, Sood said.They are trying "to build a focused approach to state and local instead of the ad hoc approach they have had in the past," he added.

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