The five largest purchases in the first half of this year, from Jan. 1 through June 30, were laptops, routers and cloud storage and related services. Specifically, from largest to smallest spend:
- The department’s biggest single expenditure during the period was $6,665,242, spent with NWN Corp. for HP laptops.
- Caltrans spent $4,268,672 with PC Specialists for laptop workstations.
- The department spent $1,972,139 for storage, purchased through Teranomic.
- Caltrans spent $970,211 for wireless Wi-Fi routers, purchased through CDCE Inc.
- The department spent $934,500 for cloud-based object storage, purchased through Mythics Inc.