Through Wednesday, the California Department of Technology (CDT) made more than 30 purchases of IT services and its top five expenses include at least one familiar name. So far this year, CDT has made 35 IT services purchases and spent exactly $6,092,244 on its five most expensive buys. Here, with rounding, is what that money paid for, based on data in the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System:
- $1.6 million to Folsom-based Tek Yantra, an IT consulting and software development company that’s familiar to the state. The purchase was for site reliability engineering for cloud streamline consulting, and represented a one-year contract, from April 21 - April 20, 2022.
- $1.5 million to Layer Aleph for “COVID IT system assessments.” This purchase was via a one-year contract from Jan. 25 - Jan. 24, 2022.
- $1.5 million to Equinix Inc. for its MRC product, a three-year pact from March 4 - March 3, 2024.
- $1 million to Mythics Inc. for Internet-as-a-service (IaaS)/platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud services with FedRAMP moderate impact level, from service catalog offerings. This is a roughly 16-month contract from Jan. 4 - June 14, 2022.
- $500,000 to Effectual Public Sector Inc. for Internet-as-a-service (IaaS)/platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud services with FedRAMP moderate impact level, from service catalog offerings. This is a roughly five-month contract from Jan. 4 - June 14.
