The Canton Group has signed a new five-year contract with the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General (DOT OIG), extending a partnership that goes back to 2009. The contract includes a base year and four optional periods.
Under the new contract, The Canton Group will continue to maintain, secure, and evolve DOT OIG's Drupal website (https://www.oig.dot.gov). The site now runs on Drupal 11, reflecting years of version upgrades and ongoing maintenance.
A Long-Term Partnership
Since 2009, The Canton Group has served as the digital operations partner for DOT OIG, managing the agency's public-facing website through a full lifecycle of redesign, platform modernization, and ongoing operations and maintenance. The Canton Group performed the Drupal 7 to 9 project which identified the need to execute a full architectural rebuild from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, requiring not only content migration but complete redevelopment of the underlying technical framework, custom modules, content types, and theme layer. This was followed by successful upgrades to Drupal 9, Drupal 10, and Drupal 11. In addition to the Drupal upgrades, The Canton Group provides ongoing security and module updates, vulnerability remediation, and new features and enhancements as the agency's needs have changed.
Some of that work has become a model for others. Our team built the site's Recommendation Dashboard, cited industry-wide as a gold standard among OIG applications; the Oversight.gov export and import feature eliminating manual data entry burden; the Active Audits page supporting Congressional reporting; the X (formerly Twitter) simultaneous publishing integration; the GovDelivery email subscription service reaching over 40,000 active subscribers; and a custom media handling enhancement that empowers OIG content editors to independently customize and manage embedded images modernizing the agency's content publishing experience and elevating the visual presentation of oversight materials.
"Few websites stay current, secure, and genuinely useful for as long as this one has, and that only happens when both sides keep showing up. DOT OIG has always pushed us to look past the task in front of us, which is how tools like the Recommendations Dashboard came to exist. We're grateful for their trust, and we're looking forward to what we build together next."
Ethan Kazi, CEO - The Canton Group
This renewal adds to The Canton Group's growing track record with federal Inspector General offices, alongside our work with USAID OIG and the Department of Labor OIG.
About DOT OIG
DOT OIG is an independent oversight office within the U.S. Department of Transportation, operating under the authority of the Inspector General Act of 1978. Through objective audits and investigations, it works to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of DOT programs and to detect and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse on behalf of the American public. The office also keeps the Secretary of Transportation and Congress informed about problems within the Department and the progress of corrective action. Its oversight covers areas including aviation, highway infrastructure, railroads and transit, pipelines and hazardous materials, and auto safety.
About The Canton Group
Since 1998, The Canton Group has helped government agencies and enterprise organizations modernize, automate, and secure mission-critical systems. Headquartered in Maryland, the company partners with federal, state, local, and private-sector clients across the country to replace aging infrastructure, streamline manual workflows, and build user-focused digital solutions.
