Tracking the Spend: State Tech Department’s IT Goods Purchases in September

The state’s technology department made 12 purchases of IT goods in September and spent more than $2 million on the top five.

The California Department of Technology spent exactly $2,277,703.57 on its five most expensive such buys. Here, with rounding, is what that money paid for, based on data in the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System:

• $1.4 million to SAS Institute for SAS mainframe software license and support renewal. This is a one-year contract from Sept. 1-Aug. 31, 2023.
• $315,225 to ASG Technologies Group for Mobius license renewal. (Rocket Software acquired ASG Technologies in April 2021.) This is a three-year contract from Sept. 1-Aug. 31, 2025.
• $277,078 to HiPer Solutions for the yearly “HiPER Change Initiative Virtual Team Success Edition” pilot for government. This is a one-year contract from Sept. 1-Aug. 31, 2023.
• $157,450 to Entisys Solutions for HPE ProLiant DL 380 Gen 10 servers, each with eight small form factor drive bays. (Entisys Solutions and Agile360 are now e360. This is a three-year contract from Sept. 12-Sept. 11, 2025.
• $131,415 to SunstoneIT for the Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) Business bundle. This is a one-year contract from Sept. 3-Sept. 2, 2023.