Tracking the Spend: Air Board’s Top 5 IT Services Buys

The state agency whose mission is to protect the public from air pollution and fight climate change spent just under $3.5 million on its five largest purchases of IT services in the second half of 2022.

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.