Tracking the Spend: State Public Health’s Top Buys of IT Goods This Year

The state public health department made 231 purchases of IT goods from Jan. 1-June 30 and spent more than $15 million on the top five.

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) spent $16,208,597.23 on its five most expensive buys of IT goods, all of which were purchases, not contracts. This represents a slight increase in overall numbers from a total of 222 such purchases from Jan. 1-June 30, 2022 — and a rise in the value of those five costliest purchases. During the first half of 2022, in a year-over-year comparison, CDPH spent $10,576,741.74 on its five costliest IT services buys, including nearly $2.7 million with NWN Solutions Corp. for a hybrid storage array from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. With rounding, here are CDPH’s five costliest purchases of IT services through June, based on data in the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System:

• $4.4 million with Optm for a “RHA-6420S-01,” likely for Rubrik four-node appliances with 240-terabyte raw hard drives. CDPH made the purchase June 9.
• $4.1 million with NWN Solutions Corp. for HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen10 servers, configured to order. The department made the purchase June 8.
• $4 million with NWN, most likely for HP EliteBook 640 G9 notebooks. CDPH made the purchase March 9.
• $1.9 million with Crayon Software Experts LLC for unified enterprise support. CDPH made the purchase March 17.
• $1.8 million with NWN, most likely for examples of Cisco’s Catalyst 9600-series six-slot chassis. CDPH made the purchase June 27.
  

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.