Here Are State Tech Agency’s Top IT Goods, Services Buys in February

The California Department of Technology made more than 20 purchases of IT goods during the year’s shortest month and spent nearly $4 million on its five most expensive buys — but made just three purchases of IT services during that same time.

CDT made 25 IT goods buys in February. Its five most expensive purchases cost $3,776,742 — and two of those were made with vendor Crayon Software Experts, a familiar state partner. CDT’s purchases with Crayon were for Microsoft 365 E5 enterprise-level government community cloud subscriptions. Combined, the two buys totaled $3,203,472, according to information on past state purchases available through the State Contract and Procurement Registration System. The contract term on each was from Feb. 1-March 31, 2026. CDT’s other three most expensive such purchases last month were, with rounding:

• $240,000 to Kovarus to renew support for Dell EMC’s Unity product line of storage systems. This is a roughly one-year contract, from Feb. 10-March 9, 2023.
• $198,000 to Secure Smart Solutions for a premium bundle of CrowdStrike’s Falcon endpoint protection solution. This is a one-year contract from Feb. 15-Feb. 14, 2023.
• $135,000 to SLED IT Solutions for examples of Gigamon’s G-TAP M Series, a “modular family of medium and hi-density passive fiber-optical network TAPs,” per the latter’s website. This is a one-year contract from Feb. 21-Feb. 20, 2023.
  

CDT’s three IT services purchases last month accounted for a spend of a little more than $1.6 million combined. The vast majority of that money — $824,000 with rounding — went to Zayo Group for one-time costs: computer system and system component administrative services involving “computer or network or Internet security” at its East End Complex in Sacramento, at a data center in Vacaville and “monthly costs” for all campuses.