WHO WE SERVE
Government & Utilities
Independent technology governance for state agencies, local governments, and the utilities that keep them running.
THE GOVERNMENT REALITY
Built for the realities of government operations and public infrastructure.
Government technology decisions happen inside a unique web of constraints: procurement law, multi-year capital budgets, cross-administration continuity, public records obligations, and political environments where every vendor selection is subject to scrutiny. But it is not just city halls and state offices. The same technology challenges extend to every public utility and infrastructure agency—Street & Bridge, Parks & Recreation, Power & Light, Wastewater Management, and Public Works—organizations that depend on software platforms, dispatch systems, land mobile radio, and cellular communications to keep communities safe and services running.
Advising government boards and elected leadership
Supporting public utilities and infrastructure operations
Managing city, county, and state IT systems
Sentinel works across the full spectrum of government and public utility operations: advising boards, committees, and elected leadership at the city, county, and state level while also providing hands-on managed technology services—from websites and citizen alert systems to server rooms, cybersecurity programs, and network infrastructure. We also serve tribal governments navigating the intersection of sovereignty, federal funding, and modern technology needs.
CHALLENGE
The challenge we solve.
Government and public utility technology environments are among the most complex in any industry. Procurement follows strict protocols—RFPs are scored against published rubrics, evaluations are subject to public records requests, and every decision must be defensible to a council, commission, or oversight body. Meanwhile, public works, utilities, and infrastructure agencies are running mission-critical dispatch systems, land mobile radio networks, and field operations software that cannot tolerate downtime—yet are often maintained by skeleton IT staffs stretched across multiple departments.
Sentinel understands both sides of this equation. Our advisory work is structured to survive the scrutiny of public records requests, political transitions, and audit cycles. And our managed services capability means we do not just advise—we can operate alongside your teams, managing server rooms, maintaining secure networks, keeping citizen-facing systems online, and ensuring that radio, dispatch, and communications infrastructure stays reliable. Whether it is a city council evaluating a new CAD vendor or a wastewater district modernizing its SCADA-adjacent systems, we bring both the governance fluency and the technical depth to deliver.
WHAT WE DO HERE
Capabilities tuned to public-sector technology programs.
- Strategic technology planning and consulting for city, county, and state government organizations
- Managed technology services for government IT infrastructure—server rooms, networks, websites, and citizen-facing systems
- Procurement governance, RFP development, vendor selection support, and evaluation oversight
- Vendor management, performance monitoring, SLA validation, and contract oversight
- Cybersecurity posture review, network security architecture, and incident response readiness
- Land mobile radio (LMR), network radio, and communications system consulting and vendor management
- Dispatch system support, CAD integration, and field operations software advisory for public utilities
- Citizen alert systems, public notification platforms, and emergency communications management
- Server room infrastructure, network equipment installation, and ongoing systems management
- Legacy system modernization planning, data cleaning, and digital records conversion
- CJIS, FedRAMP, StateRAMP, and public-sector compliance framework advisory
- Critical infrastructure and SCADA-adjacent system advisory for utilities and public works
- Cross-jurisdictional governance, shared-services planning, and intergovernmental technology coordination
- Independent assessments, program reviews, and IV&V-style validation for grant-funded initiatives
- Risk assessment, risk management, and risk mitigation strategy for government technology programs
AREAS WE COVER
Government is not one discipline.
Each public-sector environment has its own technology footprint, regulatory landscape, and political reality. Sentinel structures engagements around the discipline — not the other way around.
State Agencies
Strategic technology planning, modernization advisory, and procurement governance for state-level departments and authorities operating large, complex technology portfolios.
Local Government
Counties, cities, and special districts navigating the same technology decisions as much larger organizations — but with smaller teams, tighter budgets, and higher visibility.
Tribal Governments
Technology governance for tribal nations navigating the intersection of sovereignty, federal funding mechanisms (BIA, IHS, USDA), and modern infrastructure needs—including broadband, public safety communications, and records management systems.
Public Utilities & Critical Infrastructure
Water, wastewater, power, street and bridge, parks and recreation, and public works agencies navigating OT/IT convergence, dispatch and field operations software, communications infrastructure, and SCADA-adjacent system modernization.
Courts & Judicial Technology
Case management systems, electronic filing, court analytics platforms, and the integration discipline that connects courts to law enforcement records, jail management systems, and public safety dispatch operations across jurisdictions.
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WHY SENTINEL
Built for the realities of public-sector decision-making.
Most consultancies are optimized for private-sector velocity. Sentinel is built for public-sector defensibility — the kind that survives a council meeting, a public records request, and a change of administration.
- Co-founder Jason Floyd has served on City Council and brings direct local government leadership experience to every engagement
- Co-founder Justin Scott began his career in Colorado state government and served as a consultant and program manager on a major technology modernization program for Colorado’s largest county
- Advisory board member with 20+ years in city government offices, currently serving as City Mayor
- Collectively, our leadership team brings extensive experience with local, county, and state government structure, budgets, and IT operations
- Public-sector procurement fluency—RFPs, scoring rubrics, evaluation defensibility, and grant compliance
- Work product structured to survive public records requests, political transitions, and audit cycles
- Managed services capability: we do not just advise—we can operate, maintain, and support critical government IT and communications infrastructure
- Familiar with capital budgets, fiscal-year cycles, and multi-year program planning
- Cross-jurisdictional experience: state, local, special district, tribal, and federal
- CJIS, FedRAMP, StateRAMP, and other public-sector compliance frameworks
- Independent governance layer that makes vendor decisions defensible to councils, boards, and commissioners
GOVERNMENT INSIGHTS
Recent thinking from the field
PROCUREMENT
Why Most Government RFPs Are Written by the Wrong People
The agencies that consistently get good outcomes from procurement keep ownership of requirements internal — and bring consultants in for governance, not authorship.
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MODERNIZATION
Legacy Replacement Is Not a Project, It’s a Decade
The agencies treating modernization as a 12-month initiative are setting themselves up to fail. The ones treating it as a sustained governance discipline are succeeding.
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CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
The OT/IT Boundary Isn’t Holding Anymore
For utilities and critical infrastructure operators, the assumption that OT lives in a separate world from IT cybersecurity has aged badly. Here’s the new framing.
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