Capgemini is "responsible for ensuring the integrity of the operations going forward," said Todd Kimbriel, director of e-government and IT services for the Texas Department of Information Resources.

Capgemini will also provide help desk services, planning, performance reporting and other IT and management functions, Kimbriel said.

Xerox will be responsible for printers and a mail operation under a separate six-year deal valued at $56 million. ACS will have charge of mainframe services, server services, data center and network services, under a $1.1 billion, eight-year agreement, Kimbriel said.

The multisourcing integrator model allows Texas to insert new vendors and new technologies as it wants. "It's almost like a plug-and-play model, if you will," Kimbriel said.

Texas has been consolidating the IT operations of 28 data centers into two data centers. The data centers are complete but the consolidation isn't. Some agencies, particularly those handling health care services, may keep some data center operations within their agencies.