Here Are Financial Information System’s Top 5 IT Goods Purchases of 2020

State government’s IT system for accounting, budget, cash management and procurement made more than 100 purchases of IT goods last year and spent nearly $3.5 million on just its five most expensive purchases.

The Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) completed 106 buys of IT goods during 2020 — spending exactly $3,494,115.02 on its five most costly expenditures. Here, with rounding, is what FI$Cal spent:

• $940,000 with Patriot IT Corp. for “OpenGov SaaS, Citizen Engagement … ,” a three-year contract that began Oct. 1 and ends Sept. 30, 2023. This could be a purchase of a software-as-a-service product from OpenGov.
• $830,000 with Dynamic Systems, Inc., for “Oracle Hardware Maintenance & Support Renewal,” a purchase made Sept. 29.
• $684,000 with Dynamic Systems, for “Exadata Database Machine XB-2,” a purchase made Feb. 27, and likely a reference to the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, its computing platform.
• $565,000 with Dynamic Systems, for “Oracle Private Cloud Appliance X8-2,” a purchase made Nov. 24. FI$Cal made three IT goods purchases with Dynamic Systems last year, totaling nearly $2 million. This one is likely a purchase of Oracle’s integrated infrastructure system.
• $475,000 with Zones LLC for “Microsoft Performance Support," a purchase made Dec. 9.