Below highlights some of the changes you will see on your FY24 DTS Monthly Bill.
Decreases:
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Simple Storage: This is no longer a service DTS is providing and has been removed from the rate sheet.
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VoIP and Persistent Chat: These communication services have decreased.
Service |
FY2023 |
FY2024 |
Unit |
6343:Business Phone Line VoIP |
$29.16 |
$28.85 |
Line/Month |
6341:Persistent Chat |
$9.35 |
$8.78 |
User/Month |
Increases:
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Overall, the DTS rates have increased due to compensation increases including COLA, health, and dental.
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Security Support: was increased to cover the Agency migration to the new Identity and Access Management (UtahID) system.
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General Purpose and Backup Storage: have increased as users have moved to the cloud and on premise utilization has dropped.
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SQL and Oracle Database Core Model: DTS has been charging less than cost for both of these rates to bring Retained Earnings in line with Federal guidelines. The increase is to bring more in-line with actual costs.
Other Rate Changes
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Application Developer Rate: In order to simplify billing and help to make agency costs more predictable throughout the year,the hourly billing for DTS application developers changed from 8 tiers to 4 tiers.
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Other Storage and File Share Services: have been moved under the “6517:General Purpose Storage” rate.
Further information:
You can view all changes to the DTS Rates by going to https://dts.utah.gov/dts-rates
If you would like to see more details on why some of the rates changed and see your Agency’s impact reports, please go to the following links:
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Link to Rate presentation document share in rate committee Presentation – Updated FY2024 Gov Ops Rates-Technology Services September 15, 2022.pdf
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Link to Rate Impact sheet shared in rate committee Rate Impact by Agency