The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) spent exactly $11,211,480 on its five most expensive such buys, representing fewer multiyear contracts than the same period of last year, a decline in overall numbers from a total of 25 such purchases from Jan. 1-March 31, 2022 — and a decline in the value of those five costliest purchases. During the first quarter of 2022, in a year-over-year comparison, DMV spent $115,955,716.75 on its five costliest IT services buys, including $104 million, with rounding, with Idemia for 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 so far this year, 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.” DMV made the purchase Feb. 16.
- $1.2 million to Avere Inc. for Real ID automated document verification professional services. This is a one-year contract from March 7-March 6, 2024.
- $1 million to Spruce Systems for building a “mobile driver’s license wallet application for hosting California’s mobile driver’s license.” This is a one-year contract from Feb. 21-Feb. 20, 2024.
- $962,000 to Avere for “professional services for ABBYY FlexiCapture Distributed solution to enable DMV to provide its workforce with remote web-based access to documents.” This is a one-year contract from March 1-Feb. 29, 2024.
- $900,000 to Enterprise Networking Solutions (ENS) for “managed services for two remote Equinix hubs that provide Amazon Web Services.” This is a three-year contract from Feb. 10-Feb. 9, 2026. Fulcrum Technology Group, a global tech investor, purchased ENS and Taborda Solutions in August 2021.
