The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) spent exactly $20,936,571.99 on its five most expensive such buys including three multiyear contracts, a decline in numbers from a total of 75 such purchases from Jan. 1-June 30, 2022 — and a decline in the value of those five costliest purchases. During the first half of 2022, in a year-over-year comparison, the DMV spent $122,025,568.75 on its five costliest IT services buys, including $104 million, with rounding, with Idemia to implement a driver’s license/identification/salesperson (DLIDSP) “card production solution with centralized issuance.” With rounding, here are DMV’s five costliest purchases of IT services through June, based on data in the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System:
- $7.1 million to CSG Forte Payments Inc. for “year 1 e-check services.” The DMV made the purchase Feb. 16.
- $4 million to Carahsoft Technology Corp. for the Hyland Alfresco platform. This is a three-year contract from June 28-June 27, 2026.
- $4 million to Avere Inc. for system integration around designing, developing, configuring and implementing a new enterprise content management (ECM) solution. This is a nearly two-year pact from June 29-March 28, 2025.
- $3.3 million to QualApps Inc. for mobile driver’s license and virtual field office Salesforce implementation services. This is a one-year contract from June 29-June 28, 2024.
- $2.5 million to Trinity Technology Group Inc. for “professional services for migration activities.” This is a two-year contract from June 16-June 15, 2025.
