We are proud to announce that Bilberrry has been awarded a Master Service Contract with the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services under Statewide Contract No. 16322, IT Development Services. This contract award covers three categories: Web Developer, Application Developer, and Software Tester services.
For Washington state agencies, public universities, community and technical colleges, local governments, tribal governments, and eligible nonprofits, this means that engaging Bilberrry for web design, web development, application development, and software testing work is now faster, simpler, and fully compliant with state procurement requirements, without the need for a lengthy independent competitive solicitation.
What is DES Contract 16322?
The Washington State Department of Enterprise Services manages statewide contracts on behalf of Washington state and its eligible purchasers. These contracts are the result of competitive procurement processes conducted by DES, meaning the vetting work has already been done. Agencies and eligible organizations can engage vendors directly from the awarded contractor list, confident that pricing, qualifications, and compliance requirements have already been evaluated and approved.
Contract 16322, IT Development Services, replaces the previous IT Professional Services contract (08215) and covers four categories of IT development work: Web Developer, Application Developer, Software Tester, and IT Architect services. Each category includes journey, senior, and expert level subcategories to match the scope and complexity of a given project.
The contract is available to more than 1,800 eligible purchasers across Washington state, including all state agencies, institutions of higher education, K-12 schools, local and tribal governments, and certain nonprofit organizations operating under a Master Contracts Usage Agreement with DES.
For procurement staff and project managers at state agencies, using an awarded vendor under Contract 16322 streamlines the purchasing process considerably. Rather than running a full competitive solicitation, purchasers request quotes from a minimum of three awarded contractors, provide a project statement of work, and reference Contract No. 16322 on their purchase order. That is the process. It is designed to be efficient, and it is.
What Bilberrry Is Awarded to Deliver
Bilberrry holds awards in three of the four contract categories.
Under Category 1, Web Developer Services
We are authorized to provide web design and layout, accessible website development, content migration, WordPress and Drupal development and ongoing support, UX and UI design, prototyping, content strategy, and information architecture services.
Under Category 2, Application Developer Services
We are authorized to provide web application development, mobile application development, application modernization, custom API and system integrations, and complex custom software development.
Under Category 3, Software Tester Services
We are authorized to provide quality assurance, functional testing, accessibility testing, user experience validation, and interoperability testing for web and application systems.
Across all three categories, services are available at journey, senior, and expert levels, giving purchasing agencies the flexibility to match the right resource to the right scope of work.
Our Work with Washington State
This contract award is not the beginning of our relationship with Washington state government. It is a recognition of work we have been doing for years.
We have designed, developed, and launched websites for some of the state’s most visible and complex agencies and institutions. That work has included projects at every scale: from complete digital transformations involving hundreds of pages of content and dozens of stakeholders, to focused application builds serving highly specialized public audiences, to ongoing support and maintenance engagements that keep critical public-facing systems running reliably.
A few examples of what that work has looked like in practice:
For the Washington State Office of Financial Management, we led an end-to-end website overhaul under an existing DES contract engagement. The project included extensive stakeholder engagement and user research, a complete restructuring of the site’s information architecture to serve a remarkably diverse audience, custom API integrations for budget content, job classifications, and vendor lookup, WCAG AA accessibility compliance across 30 page types, live training and documented SOPs for more than 80 content managers and web editors, and a full content migration from Drupal to WordPress with no data lost. Read the case study here.
For the Washington State Auditor’s Office, we redesigned the public-facing user experience for the SAO FIT application, a complex financial data tool that surfaces ten years of financial records from more than 2,000 local governments. The work required close collaboration with financial data experts, communications teams, and technical partners to make dense, complex data genuinely accessible and useful to a broad public audience. Read the case study here.
For Snohomish County PUD, we redesigned and developed their customer-facing public website as well as their district-wide staff intranet. The project included auditing over 700 pages of content, implementing a revised task-based navigation, building a scalable WordPress design system, migrating more than 350 pages of content, and integrating with existing district technologies including Active Directory SSO and their customer payment portal. Read the case study here.
These projects reflect the range of what state and local government agencies actually need from a web development partner: deep technical capability, genuine experience with the complexity of public sector content and stakeholder environments, a rigorous approach to accessibility, and the organizational maturity to manage large, multi-phase engagements reliably.
Why the DES Contract Structure Matters for Agencies
One of the persistent challenges for state and local government agencies pursuing digital projects is the procurement process itself. A full competitive solicitation for web development services takes time, requires significant internal resources to manage, and can delay project starts by months. For agencies operating under budget cycles and legislative timelines, that delay has real consequences.
The DES statewide contract structure exists to solve this problem. Because DES has conducted the competitive procurement centrally, individual agencies can move directly to engaging a vendor and scoping their project. The compliance requirements are already satisfied. The pricing has already been evaluated. The result is a procurement path that is both rigorous and practical.
For agencies that have a web design or development need and want to move efficiently, Contract 16322 is the right vehicle. And for agencies that want a vendor with demonstrated experience delivering complex digital projects for Washington state government specifically, Bilberrry is on the list.
Working with Bilberrry Under Contract 16322
If your agency or eligible organization has a web design, web development, application development, or software testing need, engaging Bilberrry through DES Contract 16322 is straightforward.
Reference Contract No. 16322 in your procurement documentation, include Bilberrry (Blueberry Technologies LLC dba Bilberrry) in your request for quotes, and provide a project statement of work. From there, we are ready to respond with a detailed proposal, scope, and timeline based on your specific needs.
We have built websites and applications for state agencies, public universities, utilities, and nonprofits across Washington. We understand the technical, accessibility, and organizational requirements that public sector digital projects demand. And we are genuinely proud of the work we have done for the people and institutions this state serves.
If you would like to start a conversation about a project, we would love to hear from you.
