Tracking the Spend: State Insurance Department’s Q1 IT Goods Purchases

The state’s insurance department made 69 purchases of IT goods from Jan. 1-March 31 and spent nearly $5 million on the top five.

The California Department of Insurance (DOI) spent exactly $4,860,474.96 on its five most expensive such buys, the majority of which were multiyear contracts. This differed significantly from its top five such purchases during the first quarter of 2022; then, all but one were purchases of software maintenance services. From Jan. 1-March 31, 2022, CDT made 86 purchases of IT goods but spent just $754,099.08 on the five most expensive such purchases.

With rounding, here are DOI’s five costliest purchases of IT goods in the year’s first quarter, based on data in the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System:

• $3.5 million to Crayon Software Experts LLC for computer services and support including software maintenance. This is a roughly three-year contract from Feb. 15-Feb. 28, 2026.
• $920,000 to Taborda Solutions Inc. for software maintenance, likely on Oracle’s Advanced Security product. This is a roughly three-year contract from Feb. 22-Feb. 20, 2026. Fulcrum Technology Group, a global tech investor, purchased Taborda Solutions in August 2021.
• $262,000 to Ablegov Inc. for “unified enterprise support” for Microsoft products. DOI made the purchase March 9.
• $116,000 to Dhenali Inc. for a Netskope package offering protection to managed cloud apps. DOI made the purchase March 22.
• $63,000 to HF Tech Services Inc. for a Granicus DisclosureDocs subscription with a “minimum (of) 25 filers.” This is a slightly more than three-year contract from Feb. 2-Feb. 26, 2026.
  

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.