Regional Education Hub Westmoreland IU is a mid-sized regional service agency serving multiple districts in Westmoreland County and across Pennsylvania. This scale creates recurring procurement opportunities and potential for multi-district IT programs. Propose consolidated services such as managed IT, network support, and outsourced helpdesk to reduce vendor fragmentation across districts.

Modernization Opportunity The current tech stack includes legacy components like SWFObject (Flash) and older jQuery-based front ends, signaling a modernization need. This presents an opportunity to offer front-end modernization, secure migration to modern frameworks, cloud hosting, and ongoing maintenance with monitoring via New Relic. Recommend upgrading to standards-based, accessible, mobile-friendly interfaces.

Data and Insights Use of Google Analytics and New Relic indicates a data-driven mindset but may lack a centralized enterprise data platform. Propose data integration, dashboards for student outcomes and operations, FERPA-compliant analytics, and data governance. Offer analytics tooling, training, and privacy controls as a packaged service.

Scalable Partnerships As a regional IU with substantial scale, there is potential to standardize procurement and IT services across multiple districts for better pricing and consistency. Opportunities include managed IT services, cybersecurity, backup and disaster recovery, and vendor-agnostic cloud hosting across the Commonwealth.

Security and Compliance Education providers require strong security and FERPA/COPPA compliance. Offer security assessments, vulnerability management, identity and access management, incident response planning, and compliant cloud hosting with regular backups and disaster recovery tailored to school district needs.