CalOES made 24 IT goods buys in the year’s first month; its five most expensive purchases cost $8,583,974. Here, with rounding, is what the department spent:
- $5.7 million with AT&T Corp. for per-seat licensing for “RapidDeploy Edge – Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) analytics,” a roughly two-year contract that began Jan. 25 and ends Jan. 31, 2023. That’s likely a reference to RapidDeploy’s computer-aided dispatch (CAD) platform in the cloud. AT&T has provided PSAP access to that platform since the two companies began working together in 2018.
- $2.5 million with Taborda Solutions Inc. for a public-sector subscription to software as a service, a purchase made Jan. 19. The pact is likely an enterprise-level agreement.
- $198,000 with Zones IT Solutions Inc. for performance support, a purchase made Jan. 8.
- $159,000 with EYEP Solutions Inc. for IBM’s QRadar XX29 appliance as well as appliance install and “subsequent appliance hard drive retention service upgrade,” a purchase made Jan. 14. Per IBM, QRadar aggregates and uses network data to help manage network security through “real-time information and monitoring” and threat response.
- $68,000 with Allied Network Solutions Inc. for VMWare Workspace ONE Advanced (Shared Cloud), SaaS Production Support and a subscription for one user — presumably for access to the enterprise platform. It’s a 36-month prepaid purchase that was made Jan. 13.
