Tracking the Spend: $8.1M in H1 for Cannabis Department on Top 5 Buys of IT Goods, Services

The California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) spent $6.7 million on its five largest purchases of IT goods and $1,373,784 on its five biggest buys of IT services in the first half of 2024. In all, the department spent a combined $8,106,514 on the purchases between Jan. 1 and June 30. Those totals don’t include telecom.

According to the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System, DCC — which is part of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency — spent $6,732,730 in the first half of the year (H1) on its five largest buys of IT goods. Those five purchases, with rounding, were:

• $5,705,197 for Accela, a purveyor of a cloud-based platform of permitting, licensing and code enforcement software solutions, in a Feb. 13 contract with Carahsoft Technology Corp. that runs through Dec. 30, 2026. It was awarded under the Software Licensing Program (SLP).
• $505,800 for a one-year SLP contract awarded June 27 to JBS Associates for the SimpliGov automation platform, rated for 50,000 transactions per year.
• $245,959 for Microsoft Surface notebook computers in a Jan. 10 statewide contract with Natix Inc.
• $153,448 for Prisma Access Mobile User edition, a cloud-based security system, in a March 4 statewide contract with Optm West.
• $122,328 for Tenable software as a service in a competitively bid contract with Dhenali Inc. that runs from May 13, 2024, through May 15, 2027.

The $1,373,784 that DCC spent on its five top buys of IT services, with rounding, went for:

• $1,157,081 for business intelligence and data warehouse services from World Wide Technology LLC in an April 30 competitive bid. The three-year contract runs through April 29, 2027.
• $158,172 for a subscription to the CLEAR Law Enforcement Database in a two-year master agreement contract with Thomson Reuters Business that runs through April 30, 2026.
• $36,000 for a Privacy Data Scrubbing Services license through 4 Screen Media Inc. in a three-year competitively bid contract that runs from May 1 through April 30, 2027.
• $12,726 for KnowBe4 PhishER Plus, an email security subscription, in a competitively bid, two-year term with Dreadnought Endeavors Inc.
• $9,805 for Search Warrant Builder, a product sold by Plumas Supply, in a one-year, competitively bid contract that runs through Jan. 18, 2025.

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.