Tracking the Spend: $6.1M for Consumer Affairs’ Top 10 IT Service Categories in FY24

The California Department of Consumer Affairs(DCA) spent $6.1 million during Fiscal Year 2023-24 on its 10 largest purchases of IT services as categorized by the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC).

Those buys included business software, maintenance and support as well as consulting, cloud services and legal research. In all, according to the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System, DCA spent $6,150,494 on these services. During the 2022-23 Fiscal Year, the department spent $4,293,420 on its 10 largest buys of IT services.

In the fiscal year that ended in June, DCA’s 10 largest buys were in the following categories:

1. $1,589,261 for software/hardware engineering and system integration design in a contract with Eduloka LLC that represented 28.97 percent of DCA’s total spend on IT services for the year
2. $881,801 for business function-specific software with BoozDNA LLC, International Network Consulting Inc., Staff Tech Inc. and Mixed Martial Arts LLC — 16.07 percent of the year’s IT services spend
3. $706,415 for project management with InterVision Systems LLC and JBS Associates — 12.88 percent
4. $263,275 for IT consulting services from LCS Technologies Inc. and RMA Consulting Group Inc. — 4.8 percent
5. $259,000 for business intelligence consulting services with RMA Consulting Group Inc. — 4.72 percent
6. $244,673 for software maintenance and support with Opus Inspection Inc., Special Order Systems Inc., Capture Technologies Inc., RELX Inc. and Scantron Corp. — 4.46 percent
7. $219,609 for electronic software reference material with 15 companies, the three largest being Patriot IT Corp. ($38,750), Acuity Technical Solutions LLC ($35,093) and R.L. Polk and Co. — together making up 4 percent of the spend
8. $169,554 for legal research services with Thomson Reuters and RELX Inc. — 3.09 percent
9. $153,518 for cloud-based business process as a service from Staff Tech Inc. and RMA Consulting Group Inc. — 2.8 percent
10. $137,388 for computer servers from Dawn U.S. Holdings — 2.5 percent of the spend

In all, DCA’s total spend on IT services in the fiscal year included purchases in 27 other UNSPSC categories that come under the umbrella of IT services.

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.