The California Department of Technology (CDT) spent $11.4 million on its five most expensive such buys, the majority of which were multiyear contracts. That was true last year as well, but this year’s numbers represent a decline in a year-over-year comparison. From Jan. 1-March 29, 2022, CDT made 101 purchases of IT goods and spent $191.2 million on its five most expensive such purchases, in a series of multiyear contracts with familiar state vendor Crayon Software Experts LLC.
With rounding, here are CDT’s five costliest purchases of IT goods so far this year, based on data in the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System:
- $2.7 million to Direct Systems Support for a “72-core system” with 4 terabytes of memory including 2 terabytes active and five years of support. This is a five-year contract, from Jan. 9-Jan. 8, 2028.
- $2.7 million to Crayon Software Experts through Microsoft Volume Licensing (MVL), most likely for Microsoft Office 365 government community cloud E5 application suites for all languages. This is a contract of just more than three years, from March 1-March 31, 2026.
- $2.3 million to Allied Network Solutions for MNF rational application developer for WebSphere Software. This is a one-year contract, from Jan. 1-Dec. 31.
- $2 million to Crayon Software Experts through MVL, probably for Microsoft Office 365 government community cloud E5 application suites for all languages. This is another contract of just more than three years, from Feb. 1-March 31, 2026.
- $1.8 million to Crayon Software Experts through MVL, likely for Microsoft Office 365 government community cloud E5 application suites for all languages. This contract, too, runs just more than three years, from Feb. 1-March 31, 2026.
