About GOVvpat
Built for the people who have to read the VPAT.
GOVvpat reviews the accessibility conformance reports your vendors submit, against the standard your solicitation actually named, and returns a dated assessment you can put in the procurement file.
- Serving public agencies since
- 1990Serving public agencies since
- Years of public-sector software
- 35+Years of public-sector software
- California — where we are
- FresnoCalifornia — where we are
- Owned and operated
- FamilyOwned and operated
The report arrives. Somebody has to decide whether it is good enough to award on.
That somebody is usually a procurement officer or a clerk, not an accessibility specialist, and the document is fifty rows of conformance language written by the company selling the product. Reports rarely contain outright false claims. They contain omissions, and omissions are invisible unless you go looking.
With the ADA Title II compliance dates now set at 26 April 2027 for entities serving 50,000 or more and 26 April 2028 for everyone else, the software being bought today will still be in service on the deadline. That makes the review a procurement question, not an IT question.
How we work
Four things we will not do differently.
We read the document, not the vendor's summary
A conformance report is a self-disclosure. Our review works from the table the vendor actually filled in — every criterion, every remark — and says plainly which claims have evidence behind them and which are assertions.
Silence is not conformance
The most common way a report overstates itself is by leaving things out: criteria never addressed, partial support with no explanation of what fails, an edition that does not answer the standard you named. Those are findings, and we report them as findings.
We do not issue certificates
No accreditation body exists for WCAG or Section 508, and no certificate establishes ADA compliance. We review reports and give you a dated assessment for the file. Anyone selling you a badge is selling you something that does not exist.
The record is the deliverable
If conformance is ever questioned, what protects an agency is the record: what you required, what the vendor disclosed, what you challenged, and when. We keep that trail attached to each report.
The company
35+ years of public-sector software.
GOVvpat is built by Computer Systems Plus, Inc. — serving California cities, counties and special districts since 1990. Same family, same building, and someone answers the phone.
- Address
- 2134 North Fine Ave
Fresno, CA 93727 - Phone
- (559) 251-7767
- Company site
- cspnet.net
- Family-owned and family-operated since 1990
- Headquartered in Fresno, California
- Serving California cities, counties and special districts for 30+ years
- Public-records and document-management heritage
- US-based engineering and support staff
- Also behind CivicCA and SentraCheck, for public agencies
Also from Computer Systems Plus
Title II reaches what you buy and what you publish.
GOVvpat reads the reports your vendors send you. That is one half of the exposure — the other is the documents your own agency puts on its website. These are the other two products we build.
CivicCA
Boards, councils and clerks
Agenda and meeting management for public bodies — agendas, minutes, voting, the public portal and the record behind them.
SentraCheck
The documents you publish
Scans documents for accessibility problems, exposed personal information and redaction failures before they go public — the other half of the Title II exposure a vendor's report does not cover.
Have a report you need read?
Send us the standard your solicitation names and the document the vendor submitted. We will tell you what it answers, what it leaves out, and what to raise before award.