Tracking the Spend: DMV’s Top IT Goods Purchases in January

One of the state’s most crucial departments, which is in the midst of a significant IT modernization, made notable expenditures on IT goods in January.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) made 21 such purchases and spent $4,782,137.81 on its five most expensive buys of IT services — much of that with a familiar vendor for devices. Here’s more information, with rounding, on what the department spent:

• $2.2 million with NWN Solutions for laptop computers. The DMV made the purchase Jan. 4.
• $728,000 with Teranomic for Pure Storage’s FlashBlade storage platform, with “674 terabytes of raw storage capacity.” The DMV made the purchase Jan. 19.
• $672,000 with Kovarus for Google translation services. Kovarus was acquired by AHEAD in 2020. This is a two-year contract from Jan. 27-Jan. 26, 2025.
• $653,000 with Presidio Network Group for network service equipment, including routers, from Cisco. This is also a two-year contract, from Jan. 31-Jan. 30, 2025.
• $534,000 with Outreach Solutions as a Service for Salesforce’s Mulesoft Anypoint Platform — Titanium Edition. This is a one-year contract from Jan. 16-Jan. 15, 2024.

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.