CalOES spent about $18 million on its five most expensive such buys, an increase of more than 50 percent in value and a threefold increase in the number of purchases, compared with the same period last year. For a year-over-year comparison, in the first quarter of 2022 CalOES spent $8.8 million on its five costliest IT services buys — and made just five such purchases, including $8 million on 911 translation services and nearly $600,000 on service delivery/access management services. With rounding, here are CalOES’ five costliest purchases of IT services so far this year, based on data in the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System:
- $13.5 million to NGA 911. Next Generation Advanced 911 offers complete and customizable next-gen, cloud-based 911 solutions globally, according to its website. This is a two-year contract from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2025.
- $2 million to Guidehouse Inc. for human resources modernization services during FY 2022. This includes “software or hardware engineering” and application implementation services. This is a one-year contract from March 1-Feb. 28, 2024.
- $1 million with UC San Diego for “IT services,” potentially proprietary software around fire protection and prevention. This is a one-year contract from Jan. 1-Dec. 31.
- $775,000 with Dajani Consulting for IT consulting services. This is an 11-month contract from Jan. 11-Dec. 14.
- $700,000 to Astute Solutions LLC for FY 2022 “CWMP” configuration and implementation services — here again, software or hardware engineering and application implementation services, potentially around customer-premises equipment wide-area network management protocol. This is a nearly 18-month contract, from Feb. 7-July 27, 2024.
