Case Study: Oklahoma's OMES cut procurement contracting time up to 58.3% with Ironclad
Key results
The challenge
The Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES), which oversees procurement for the State of Oklahoma, processes thousands of contracts annually. Before 2022, its legal team managed the entire review process through Microsoft Planner, requiring extensive manual tracking, while the procurement team struggled to track contract statuses and get timely legal feedback.
The solution
OMES selected Ironclad through a competitive bid process, using its AI capabilities and separate-but-connected channels for procurement officers, legal reviewers, and external vendors to modernize government contracting.
“The overall ease of accessibility of these metrics doesn't only improve the current contracting process but helps to identify objectives and expediencies in the contracting process moving forward.”
AOAmanda OtisState Purchasing Director, OMES
The results, in context
Since November 2023, collaboration between procurement and legal through Ironclad produced substantial time savings from start to signature: a 58.3% reduction for IT statewide RFPs, a 52.5% reduction for agency RFPs, and a 29.2% reduction for statewide contract orders, with more than $66k in total financial savings to date.