The department is responsible for assessing the state’s public health status and needs and administering and enforcing laws associated with sanitation, infectious diseases, illnesses and other health hazards.
Here, rounded up, are the agency’s five largest purchases during Q3, according to data from the Florida Accountability Contract Tracking System:
- $199 million to Cardinal Health 110 Inc., a provider of performance and data solutions for health-care facilities
- $30 million to SnapMedTech Inc., the parent company of SnapCare, which offers real-time health-care staffing solutions for travel nurses
- $19 million to ISF Inc., which provides state government agencies with custom software development and support, data conversion, system design and analysis and other business process outsourcing services
- $9 million to Florida State University, one of the state’s public research universities that has a total enrollment of nearly 42,000, and which runs the Northwest Regional Data Center
- $9 million to Abbott Laboratories Inc., which creates products related to diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition and branded generic pharmaceuticals
Regarding specific purchases, the department spent about $8 million on business and corporate management consultation services, $6 million on data processing and preparation services, $6 million on IT consultation services and $2 million on project management services.
