DPH, one of more than a dozen entities within the California Health and Human Services Agency, works in areas including infectious disease control and prevention, food safety, environmental health, laboratory services, patient safety, emergency preparedness, chronic disease prevention and health promotion, family health, health equity, and vital records and statistics.
According to the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System, CDPH spent $29,588,947 on its five largest purchases of IT goods from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31. (All numbers are rounded.) Those five contracts were:
- $12,988,275 for Salesforce subscriptions, in an Oct. 26 contract with Taborda Solutions Inc. that was awarded under the Software Licensing Program.
- $4,378,062 for Rubrik appliances (“RHA-6420S-01: r6420 Appliance, 4-node, 240TB raw HDD, 1.6TB SSD, SFP+ NIC”) in a June 9 statewide contract with Optm West.
- $4,124,135 for HPE server equipment in a June 8 statewide contract with NWN Solutions Corp.
- $4,110,894 for a three-year statewide contract for unspecified IT goods dated Oct. 25 with Kovarus Inc.
- $3,987,581 in a March 9 statewide contract for notebook computers (HP 640 G9 i7 16GB 256SSD TOUCH) with NWN Solutions Corp.
The periodic reports of spending on IT goods and services by agencies and departments in state government are compiled by Industry Insider — California as a way of highlighting procurements and trends.