According to the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System, CHP’s five largest buys were primarily related to consulting services, telematics and data collection.
The department’s five buys between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 totaled $3,690,815 (with rounding). They were:
- $1,500,000 for IT consulting services in a Dec. 29 contract with SDI Presence LLC. This was awarded under a master agreement.
- $788,322 for GEOTAB Telematics with support, universal harness and training, in a Nov. 9 statewide contract with Geotab USA Inc.
- $600,000 for consulting services on CHP’s Wireless Mobile Video/Audio Recording System (WMVARS), in an Oct. 1 contract with Gartner Inc. that was awarded under the IT master service agreement.
- $577,493 for UFED 4PC Ultimate, which allows users to perform data extraction, decoding, analysis and reporting on a single platform. The Nov. 28 contract with Cellebrite Inc. was non-competitively bid because it’s proprietary software.
- $225,000 for subscriptions to an investigative data platform with data access and FaceSearch with Vigilant Image Gallery Access. This was a Dec. 28 contract with Vigilant Solutions LLC that was non-competitively bid because it’s proprietary software.
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.
