It's more common for state governments to join forces to define standards for data, performance, features, and interoperability, and then require contractors to

It's more common for state governments to join forces to define standards for data, performance, features, and interoperability, and then require contractors to comply in the contract language. I'm not aware of many contracts for bespoke software in the state government space; it's far more frequent that someone identifies a need and then develops a solution to bring to market.