The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) spent exactly $2,787,928.40 on its five most expensive such buys. Here, with rounding, is what that money paid for, based on data in the State Contract and Procurement Registration System:
- $999,000 to Taborda Solutions for an enterprise agreement for software as a service at a minimum contract value of $200,000. The subscription includes “(Google Cloud Platform) GCP services required to support the CDPH Research Branch with infectious disease computational sequencing work with up to 300T (terabytes).” (Taborda Solutions and Enterprise Networking Solutions were purchased in August by Fulcrum Technology Group.) CDPH made the purchase April 20.
- $645,000 to Carahsoft Technology Corp. for access to “all Twilio solutions,” including SMS and MMS texting capabilities, “phone numbers, support, emails and other aspects” of an API communications platform. The department made the purchase April 15.
- $469,000 to Kovarus for storage software. CDPH made the purchase April 20.
- $404,000 to NWN Solutions for Hewlett Packard’s HP ProBook 640 G8 laptops with 15 gigabytes of memory. CDPH made the purchase April 20.
- $272,000 to Motorola Solutions for its APX 4000 Model 2 digital portable radios in UHF R2 band. CDPH made the purchase April 5.
