Texas cities, counties, and agencies can now procure Darwin's AI governance and agentic workflow platform through a cooperative contract — no separate RFP required.
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Local governments are on the front line of the AI transition. Public servants are already using AI to draft records, answer resident questions, and move work faster, often without a policy, an inventory, or any visibility into where that AI is touching sensitive data. The technology is moving faster than the procurement and governance frameworks built to manage it.
Today, we're closing part of that gap. Darwin AI has been awarded a cooperative purchasing contract by TXShare, the cooperative purchasing program of the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG), and the contract is now available through Civic Marketplace. Texas public entities can begin purchasing immediately, with pre-negotiated, cooperative-only SLED pricing and no separate RFP process.
For agencies, that means the path from "we need AI governance" to "we have it deployed" no longer runs through months of procurement.
The contract covers Darwin's full platform, the visibility layer and the execution layer that sit on top of it.
- Darwin Govern™ delivers enterprise AI visibility, policy enforcement, and compliance management. That includes real-time shadow AI detection, a Policy Wizard aligned to TRAIGA and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and one-click risk remediation across departments. It's how an agency answers the question "what AI is actually running here, and is it compliant?"
- Darwin LaunchPad™ is a secure environment for deploying mission-specific agentic workflows , automating back-office processes like public records, HR, permitting, and procurement, all within the agency's own policy guardrails.
Qualifying agencies can also start with a no-cost AI discovery assessment, which surfaces their actual shadow AI footprint before they commit to any budget. It's a low-risk way to see the real picture first.
The governance gap isn't hypothetical. In public agencies without approved AI tools, roughly 70% of public servants report using AI without their manager's knowledge (Public Sector AI Adoption Index, 2026). That exposes sensitive resident data, creates FOIA and records-management gaps, and puts agencies out of step with a fast-growing body of state AI law.
In Texas specifically, that body of law now has teeth. TRAIGA (Texas HB 149) and DIR Chapter 219 require agencies to maintain AI inventories, document their policies, and classify risk, obligations that are difficult to meet without purpose-built infrastructure.
Darwin is built to address both sides of the problem at once. Govern™ establishes the visibility and policy layer; LaunchPad™ enables safe, governed AI execution on top of it. In deployments with agencies including CapMetro (Austin, TX), the City of Fishers (IN), and the Central Ohio Transit Authority, Darwin has consistently surfaced the full shadow AI footprint within days and delivered a compliance-ready policy framework aligned to each agency's own standards.
"Local governments are on the front line of the AI transition, and they shouldn't have to choose between moving fast and getting governance right. Through the TXShare cooperative contract on Civic Marketplace, Texas cities, counties, and agencies now have a clean procurement path to the same AI governance and agentic workflow infrastructure trusted by leading state and local organizations across the country. It's the responsible, practical way to turn AI from a risk conversation into a mission outcome."
— Dustin Haisler, Chief AI Officer and U.S. General Manager, Darwin AI
Darwin AI is available now through the TXShare cooperative contract on Civic Marketplace. To explore the contract and begin procurement, visit Civic Marketplace or reach out to our team directly.
If you're a TXShare member, we'd love to talk through what AI governance could look like for your agency.
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