Government tech operates under constraints private sector barely knows: procurement cycles, security and compliance requirements, vendor management, constituent accountability. COBOL systems running critical services. Cloud contracts with FedRAMP certification overhead. Citizens expecting 24/7 digital services from agencies built for phone lines. Consult Saksham has helped federal, state, and local government teams modernize legacy infrastructure, build new citizen-facing services, and navigate procurement and compliance. Since 2012, the practice understands that government tech only works when it respects the governance layer, not fights it.
Government can't just replace a system; they have to bid it, oversee it, and maintain it through political cycles. FedRAMP compliance adds months. FISMA security gates become architectural constraints. Accessibility isn't nice-to-have; it's law. Legacy COBOL systems run critical services and must stay live during modernization. The tech that works acknowledges these constraints and builds within them.
The practice has designed citizen-facing platforms for federal and local agencies. Effective systems don't require citizens to adopt new digital behavior; they meet people where they are. Phone support, mail fallback, and in-person service stay available. Digital is faster, not the only option.
Consult Saksham has helped agencies refactor monoliths and migrate COBOL. Strangler fig patterns, API-first design, and phased cutover all matter. The system must stay live and serve constituents every day. You can't ask citizens to wait for a rewrite to finish.
The practice has advised on contract structure, vendor evaluation, and governance for modernization programs. Government tech succeeds when vendors understand the constraints, teams know how to manage them, and incentives push toward delivery rather than complexity.
Three to four weeks. Principal-led platform, data, and delivery review with a written plan.
Monthly retainer at the right cadence for the stage. Weekly call, hire panels, board prep.
Build, buy, partner across the Government & Public Sector-relevant use cases. Governance and economics included.
Ten to fifteen business days. Investor memo, 100-day plan, direct readout.
The agency’s application portal was built in 2008. Citizens waited thirty days for processing. The backlog was growing. A failed modernization attempt two years prior had burned budget and trust. The new approach had to work on the first pass.
Saksham designed a phased modernization that kept the legacy mainframe operational throughout. The new citizen portal went live section by section. Processing time dropped from thirty days to five. FedRAMP compliance was achieved within the procurement cycle. Zero service interruptions during the transition.
The first conversation is thirty minutes. By the end of it, the shape of the engagement is clear.