The 2016-17 budget was about $9.7 billion and the 2017-18 budget was about $10.9 billion.
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Caltrans falls under the California State Transportation Agency, led by Secretary Brian Annis.
Director: Laurie Berman
Chief Deputy Director: Ryan Chamberlain
Chief Information Officer: George Akiyama
That included 2,000 purchase orders spread over 24 months, with the most orders in June 2017. That month included 770 orders, while November 2017 had two purchases. There is no data available on the State Contract and Procurement Registration System after November 2017.
Caltrans explains on its website how to bid on opportunities, but several projects are available only to companies with a Caltrans Bidding Connect account. The department also shares projects that are still in the planning stages here.
There is one RFP open, which will close on Oct. 16.
In all, 338 vendors contracted with the board.
The top five suppliers of IT goods for those two years were:
- NWN Corp. at $10.6 million
- Motorola Solutions at $5 million
- Mythics at $2.4 million
- NWN Solutions at $1.5 million
- Kovarus Inc. at $1.4 million
- Cambria Solutions at $1.7 million
- KPMG at $1.4 million
- Infiniti at $1.2 million
- TechTu at $944,886
- California State University, Chico, Research Foundation at $937,725
About $49.8 million was spent on IT goods over the two-year period; $12.7 million was spent on IT services over the two years.
FY 2016-17 had a $41.7 million spend toward IT goods, and $11.8 million on IT services. In the following fiscal year, the department spent about $9 million on goods and services — $8.1 million on IT goods and $918,000 on IT services.
The department's summer 2018 performance report can be viewed here.
Purchase documents and other records can be viewed here.
This data was taken from California's State Contract and Procurement Registration System (SCPRS) and has not been cleansed by Techwire.
Some procurement may have been fully or partially handled by or for another agency.