According to the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System, CDCR spent $72,087,698 on its five largest buys of IT services between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31. (All numbers are rounded.)
Those purchases were:
- $25,085,462 for maintenance and operations in communications and technology, in a contract with Global Tel Link Co. that runs from June 15, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
- $20,821,965 for IT consulting services with Cerner Corp. in a contract running from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
- $19,995,000 for service, maintenance and operations with International Business Machines Inc. that runs from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2027.
- $3,804,200 for maintenance and operations and enhancements to CDCR’s Strategic Offender Management System (SOMS) with Public Consulting Group LLC in a contract running from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026.
- $2,381,071 for “Buyout SOW C12.0010, Cal Health Care Facility,” in a contract running from June 26, 2023, through June 30, 2023, with Omnicell Inc., a provider of automated systems for medication management in hospitals and other health-care settings.
Four of the five contracts were non-competitively bid; the award to Public Consulting Group LLC was under a master agreement.
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.
