Tracking the Spend: Health Department Spent $4.8M on IT Buys in Second Half of 2023

The Florida Department of Health (DOH) reported about $4.8 million in IT purchases in the latter half of 2023, with IT consultation services accounting for most of that spending.

The department oversees 67 county health departments, eight children’s medical services area offices, 12 medical quality assurance regional offices, nine disability determinations regional offices and three public health laboratories, according to DOH’s website.

Here are the five largest IT-related purchases made between July and the end of 2023, rounded up, based on data from the Florida Accountability Contract Tracking System:

• $1.3 million to ISF Inc., a company that offers management consulting, custom software development and support, data conversion, system design and analysis
• $470,895 to the Florida Council for Community Mental Health, a statewide association that promotes the welfare of persons with behavioral health disorders 
• $393,549 to IBM Corp., which offers infrastructure, software and consulting services 
• $335,472 to Dell Marketing L.P., a company that provides information technology-managed infrastructure services 
• $220,908 to Florida State University, one of the state’s public research universities that has a total enrollment of more than 40,000 and which runs the Northwest Regional Data Center 

Regarding specific purchases, the department spent $1.8 million on IT consultation services, $470,895 on community outreach programs, $125,203 on computers, $63,899 on project monitoring and evaluation, $51,963 on data storage service and $24,876 on computer servers.

The periodic reports of spending on IT goods and services by agencies and departments in state government are compiled by Industry Insider — Florida as a way of highlighting procurements and trends.