The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) made 39 purchases of IT goods during February and spent more than $3 million on its five most expensive buys. Those five purchases cost exactly $3,197,485. Here, with rounding, is where the money went, according to information on past state purchases available through the State Contract and Procurement Registration System:
- $2.1 million to Natix for Microsoft Surface Pro 8 tablets, each with 512 gigabyte hard drives and accessories. CDPH made the purchase Feb. 28.
- $357,000 to SLED IT Solutions for Riverbed’s SteelCentral performance management platform. CDPH made the purchase Feb. 3.
- $331,000 to Taborda Solutions for Oracle Active Data Guard, a solution that eliminates “single points of failure” in vital Oracle databases, according to company literature. CDPH made the purchase Feb. 7. Taborda Solutions and Enterprise Networking Solutions were purchased in August by Fulcrum Technology Group.
- $217,000 to Enterprise Networking Solutions for renewals on Palo Alto Networks software in areas including threat prevention, wildfire tracking and software-defined wide area network. Public Health made the purchase Feb. 3.
- $185,000 to Patriot IT Corp. for deception and advanced deception software licensing, maintenance and support. The department made the purchase Feb. 22.
