Due: February 18, 2026
From the farthest corners of the United States and everywhere in between, governments and educational agencies face an increasing need to understand, manage, and utilize the vast amounts of data at their disposal.
Balancing the demands for high-quality services with limited staff, time and budgets, those governments and agencies often find themselves constrained when it comes to identifying and implementing modern digital infrastructure tools and resources.
Enter Sourcewell.
Sourcewell empowers public employees through dynamic solutions and services that drive efficiency and impact. As a government partner and fellow public entity, Sourcewell shares a unique understanding of the day-to-day challenges public employees face. From cooperative contracts and related solutions to education and community resources, Sourcewell is driven by an unmatched commitment to service and community success. Visit sourcewell-mn.gov to learn more.
Sourcewell Ventures, the innovation arm of Sourcewell, explores emerging needs, co-develops practical solutions, and pilots new approaches to modernizing government with and for public agencies. Through its formal pilot program, Sourcewell Ventures works with select partners to test innovation forward solutions in real-world settings and evaluate public value prior to scale.
Sourcewell’s network of more than 50,000 public agencies across the country actively seek innovative solutions to address the needs of their offices and to serve the needs of their constituents.
The Sourcewell Ventures Civic Solutions Challenge seeks to identify providers of digital infrastructure technologies across three key focus areas.
Key Focus Areas:
- Operational GovTech: tools that modernize government service delivery and internal operations/administration
- Public Safety Tech: solutions that enhance emergency response, law enforcement coordination, and community safety initiatives
- Public Health and Community Wellbeing Tech: non-clinical technologies that support health, safety, and human services operations
Proposed technologies should address one or more frequently cited pain points across all three focus areas.
Pain Points:
- Accessibility: connecting users to resources in more efficient and effective ways
- Cybersecurity: safeguarding organizational and constituent data
- Data Utilization: optimizing data processes for more informed decision making
- Interoperability: connecting distinct hardware or software tools into a cohesive resource
- Modernization: 21st Century solutions for persistent organizational or constituent issues
TechConnect and Sourcewell Ventures encourage technology providers interested in improving the operations of public agencies nationwide to propose their technologies by entering the Challenge by February 18, 2026 at 8 p.m. Eastern.