Tracking the Spend: CDT Spent $7M+ on Top IT Buys in August

The state technology department made 18 purchases of IT goods from Aug. 1-Aug. 31 and spent more than $7 million on the top five.

The California Department of Technology (CDT) spent $7,283,011.56 on its five most expensive such buys. This compares favorably with the same period in 2022. In August 2022, CDT made 18 purchases of IT goods as well, but spent nearly $3 million less on its five most expensive such purchases, just $4,655,152.72. Here, with rounding, is what that money paid for, based on data in the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System:

• $2.6 million to iBridge Cloud Technologies Inc. for NetApp Fabric Attached Storage (FAS) arrays with eight 40-gigabit ethernet ports and eight 32Gb fiber channel ports. CDT made the purchase Aug. 2.
• $2.6 million to NWN Solutions Corp. for a three-year enterprise licensing agreement. The contract runs from Aug. 1-July 31, 2026.
• $1.8 million to Blue Karma Security LLC for an Axway managed file transfer cloud subscription. This, too, is a three-year contract from Aug. 31-Aug. 30, 2026.
• $207,000 to Direct Systems Support to renew hardware and software support for IBM AIX. This is a nearly one-year pact, from Aug. 15-July 31, 2024.
• $151,000 to Banc of America Public Capital Corp., a Bank of America subsidiary, for a bond counsel fee. CDT made the purchase Aug. 15.

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.