Office of the Chief Information Officer

United States Department of Agriculture

Hardware Management

Services Provided

Repair and Warranty
ITS provides services required for repair of equipment and coordination of warranty services.

Inventory
ITS provides a complete inventory system of all ITS hardware deployed in the OCIO/ITS architecture.

Services Provided

Hardware Certification and Release 

This includes servers, desktops, GIS workstations, laptops, tablets, and all peripherals that are available for procurement and deployment into the ITS environment. It also includes standard and specialized setup or configurations for existing platforms, platforms that vary from standard offerings and any additional equipment that would. Properly submitted customer requests for reviews are those in which all functional requirements have been identified, all materials required for testing have been received and no further documentation is required by ITS managers. Customers prioritize requests for certification on the ITS Mission Board. This service also incorporates Release Management.

Performance Matrix & Targets

Hardware Management Services

Service Type Service
Measure
Measurement Perform. Target
Equipment Repair Restoration of service.

≤ 10 Business Days

Incident Closure Date – Incident Report Date

95%

Inventory Automated Report Availability Application Availability = [Total Time – (∑ Total Outage - ∑ Planned Outage)] ÷ Total Time

95%

Hardware Certification and Release Certification and/or Approval of End User requests within 60 days New Project Form Approval Date – Deployed to Production date (the point at which the application is ready to go to deployment) < 60 Days
The measurement Tool will be the IDB Project Tracking

95%

Download the End User Services - Hardware Management page from the ITS Service Catalog.