The California Employment Development Department (EDD) spent exactly $3,713,549.66 on its five most expensive such buys – and more than half of that, or nearly $2.1 million was with one vendor. Here, with rounding, is what that money paid for, based on data in the State Contract and Procurement Registration System:
- $1.8 million to Allied Network Solutions for support renewal for Micro Focus’ Verastream host integrator. EDD made the purchase April 13.
- $1.2 million to Crayon Software Experts for performance support. The department made the purchase April 28.
- $268,000 to Allied for “business function-specific software.” EDD made the purchase April 8.
- $207,000 to Kovarus for software maintenance and support for Dell’s Isilon InsightIQ for OneFS. EDD made the purchase April 27.
- $195,000 to SoftwareONE for the purchase of “business function-specific software,” possibly related to Microsoft core infrastructure. EDD made the purchase April 8.