The California Air Resources Board (CARB) spent $3,454,123, with rounding, on those five contracts. By comparison, the board spent $6,109,000 during the first half of last year on its five largest IT services purchases.
The five largest service buys from July 1 through Dec. 31 were:
- $999,987 for maintenance on Cal e-GGRT, a greenhouse-gas reporting tool, in a Dec. 1 contract with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) under a non-competitive award for proprietary software.
- $999,970 for development of a Cal e-GGRT reporting module, in a Dec. 22 contract with SAIC, also a non-competitive award for proprietary software.
- $591,080 for the services of three business analysts, in an Aug. 4 contract with M Corp under a Master Services Agreement.
- $556,142 for ammonia and nitrous oxide flux monitoring sensors and services, in an Aug. 1 contract with the Trustees of Princeton University under a non-competitively bid award.
- $306,944 for the services of two .NET developers, in a Nov. 16 informal competitive contract with The iFish Group.
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.
