For District Agencies & Programs

The mandate survives.
The help does not.

Mayor's Order 2024-028 §III requires alignment with six AI values, verified before deploying any AI tool — every deployment, documented, indefinitely. Both the AI Taskforce and the Advisory Group expire December 31, 2026. Agencies are not losing the obligation. They are losing the structure built to help them meet it.

Capability Statement (PDF)

The Obligation Surface

Six things a reviewer can ask for, in writing, today.

A jurisdiction's marquee AI order is rarely its entire compliance surface. In the District, the Mayor's Order sits alongside a binding OCTO policy and a standard clause set — and OCP's own clause E.2 requires conformance with all of it.

Values alignment before deployment

A documented record for every AI tool in use or planned — not a one-time organizational attestation. The duty attaches to the deployment, and it recurs. Mayor's Order 2024-028 §III

Human accountability for every determination

Named decision owners and a review procedure staff actually follow. The standard is accountability for every action or determination — a higher bar than "a human is in the loop somewhere." Mayor's Order 2024-028 §III.C

OCTO AI/ML Governance Policy conformance

Binding under D.C. Code § 1-1401 et seq., with sanctions — not guidance, and it carries obligations the six values do not cover. Testing against §§ 4.1.3–4.1.7, 4.2.3, 4.3.6 and 5. OCTO AI/ML Governance Policy

Standard AI contract clauses E.1–E.4

Factsheet currency, bias evidence on demand, human override precedence, explainability. Clause E.2 is the one that makes the instrument set a single compliance surface rather than three separate ones. DC AI Procurement Handbook · standard clauses E.1–E.4

CTO approval before funds are obligated

In-scope IT projects must be approved by the District CTO before money can be spent, and the Contracting Officer may issue POs and contracts only after that approval is obtained. The package gets assembled either way — the question is whether it is defensible. OCTO IT Procurement and IT Project Policy §4.2

Responsible AI training — employees and contractors

The District's own framing for the mandated course is a baseline understanding. Most of the District is now past baseline. The live question inside an agency is no longer whether staff completed the course — it is whether anyone behaves differently downstream. OCTO announcement, February 12, 2026 · course: "Using GenAI In Government"

The Timing Question

Agencies are not losing the obligation. They are losing the help.

The per-deployment values-alignment requirement is permanent — §III sets no end date. The AI Taskforce and the Advisory Group both sunset at the end of 2026 under §VI.J and §IV.J. Every deployment that goes live in 2027 carries the same duty with less institutional support behind it.

That is the case for standing capacity rather than episodic projects — someone retained who already knows your systems when the question arrives, instead of a procurement that starts after it does.

How to Contract With ArcPoint

Registered, certified, and able to receive award today.

Set-aside eligible

Certified SBE, eligible for the mandatory set-aside of contracts at or below $250,000 under § 2-218.44 — the band ArcPoint's District services are scoped to sit inside, individually and in combination.

Maximum bid preference

Six CBE designations whose combined value exceeds the statutory cap, so ArcPoint qualifies for the most § 2-218.43(b) allows: 12 points on proposals, or a 12% price reduction on bids. No competitor can hold more — only match.

Never both sides of one procurement

ArcPoint does not represent a vendor bidding to an agency it advises, and takes no role in source selection. Where we support a procurement, recommended language is input to the Contracting Officer and counsel, who own the solicitation.

Vendor-neutral, and resident

No referral fees, no reseller relationships — findings serve the agency and nothing else. A DC resident with a direct stake in how the District governs AI, not a firm that flew in for the mandate.

Ready to execute: NDA · W-9 · CBE number. SAM.gov active · OCP eSourcing registered · Basic Business License and Clean Hands current.

Capability Statement — DC Agency (PDF, 65 KB)

Agency Engagements

Deliverables, not hours.

DC AI Values Alignment Assessment

CIO · Program Office · OGC

The full published obligation set for one deployment: the six §III values plus conformance testing against the OCTO AI/ML Governance Policy and clauses E.1–E.4. Ships as a package — report, client assessment, remediation workbook, readout deck, OCTO submission set, 30-day checkpoint — all rendered from a single findings register, so no two artifacts can disagree. Scope boundary: one AI deployment

6–8 wksFixed fee

AI Governance Workforce Enablement

HR · Training Office · CIO · Privacy

Role-specific operational training that begins where the District's baseline course ends. Built on a role and decision-authority map that turns §III.C human accountability into job aids staff use at the moment of decision. Not a compliance substitute — the District-level training obligation is discharged centrally; this builds above it. 3 role groups · 3 live sessions · 75 participants

4–5 wksFixed fee

AI Procurement Governance Review

CIO · CTO Liaison · Contracting Officer

Pre-award. Every other engagement assesses a system the agency already owns; this one lands in the window before signature, where requirements, evidence rights, acceptance criteria, and termination leverage are still cheap to change. Anchored to the §4.2 CTO approval gate the agency must clear regardless. 1 acquisition · 3 working sessions · 1 panel briefing

2–3 wksFixed fee

AI Governance Gap Assessment

CIO · Executive Leadership

Organization-wide rather than per-deployment. Where AI influences decisions across the agency, where oversight is missing, and a sequenced remediation roadmap. The right start when the deployment inventory itself is uncertain.

4–6 wksFixed fee

Standing AI Governance Advisory

CIO · AI Lead

Retained monthly capacity across deployment, monitoring, and review cycles — capacity held in reserve rather than episodic projects. Structured to carry an agency through the Taskforce sunset without a gap in coverage.

MonthlyBy engagement

The mandate survives.The help does not.