According to the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System, DOJ spent $12,917,692 from July 1 through Sept. 30 on such items as licenses, renewals and a tool that’s used in the extraction and purification of DNA, RNA, proteins and cells.
The six largest purchases (the last two are identical) were:
- $4,488,873 for Palo Alto Networks Firewall renewal enterprise license agreement, in a Sept. 5 competitively bid contract with Savant Solutions Inc.
- $3,709,102 for Cisco SmartNet support, in a July 1 statewide contract with NWN Solutions Corp. that runs through June 30, 2026.
- $2,072,897 for MyLicense One Office, a tool that empowers regulatory agencies to configure online application forms that meet their specific needs without complex IT skills, in a two-year contract that was awarded July 18 to Public Consulting Group LLC under the Software Licensing Program (SLP).
- $961,500 for a one-year Commvault maintenance renewal, in a three-year SLP contract with CDW Government LLC that began Aug. 31.
- $843,660 for “Kingfisher Flex with 96 DW Head,” a device used in the processing of DNA and RNA, in a one-year competitively bid contract with Life Technologies Corp. that runs through Sept. 29. This purchase was made twice.
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.
