According to the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System, the total spent by the California High-Speed Rail Authority (HSR) on its top five contracts for IT services was $1,120,049 (with rounding). Those five purchases were:
- $800,000 for consulting services related to IT project management and business solutions analysis, in a June 27 Master Services Agreement with North Ridge Consulting of Sacramento. The contract runs through Sept. 30, 2023.
- $103,570 for a one-year subscription to Imperva: Incapsula Enterprise 20, a cyber protection plan. The June 15 contract, which runs through July 1, 2023, was purchased through Sacramento-based SunstoneIT after a competitive bid with a small-business option.
- $87,601 for SharePoint server for all languages, in a March 2 competitive-bid contract with SoftwareONE, which provides “end-to-end software and cloud solutions.”
- $65,625 for a subscription to KnowBe4, a security awareness training solution purchased June 2 through Nexxsol Corp. under a competitive bid with a small-business option.
- $63,253 for Palo Alto Networks’ PA-640, an enterprise-level firewall solution purchased June 2 under an informal competitive bid through Enterprise Networking Solutions (now part of Optm).
In comparison to the $1,120,049 that HSR spent on its five largest IT services contracts in the first six months of 2022, the authority spent $2,105,264 on its five largest IT services contracts in the first six months of 2021.
