Here Is Conservation Corps’ Spend on Top 7 IT Purchases

The California Conservation Corps spent almost $1 million in the first half of calendar 2021 on its seven largest buys of IT goods, according to the Financial Information System for California’s State Contracting and Procurement Registration System. The purchases included software licenses, laptops, network switches and vehicle-tracking telematics.

The seven largest purchases of IT goods from Jan. 1 through June 30, which totaled $926,668, included:

• $634,400 for Salesforcesoftware licensing, purchased June 16 from Allied Network Solutions under a Statewide Licensing Program (SLP) contract.
• $129,743 for “Geotab GO9 Verizon telematics devices” and related goods and services including installation and training, for light-duty and zero-emissions vehicles. The Feb. 2 award was under a statewide contract with Geotab USA.
• $71,220 for “210-AUQP - A200-2.2GHZ/2C/64G+15x2TB SAT/400GB” solid-state drives, purchased June 29 from PC Specialists (part of Technology Integration Group) under a statewide contract.
• $29,873 for “JL679A - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Aruba 6100 12G CL4 2SFP+ 139W Swch,” network switches, in a June 22 contract with Strato Communications under a formal, competitively bid contract.
• Three separate contracts for HP laptops, totaling $61,432, in statewide contracts awarded in January, February and April to NWN Corp.