Five Agencies Spent $173M on IT Services in First Quarter

Five state agencies spent about $173 million on IT services from January through March, with the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) in the lead, spending $86.1 million.

The commission processed 668 purchase orders among 125 vendors, according to Industry Insider’s Texas IT Spending Dashboard.

Here are more numbers, which are pulled from the CPA’s “Payment to Payee” visualization:

HHSC spent $86.1 million, which included:

• $30.8 million to Deloitte Consulting LLP, which provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management and tax services
• $12.2 million to Conduent State Healthcare, which provides health-care systems to help reduce costs, create engagement and advance health equity
• $5.8 million to Insight Public Sector, which provides hardware, software and cloud solutions and services

Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) spent $53.3 million, which included:

• $9.4 million to Accenture LLP, which provides management consulting and professional services
• $7.8 million to AT&T, which provides telecommunications, media and technology services
• $5.4 million to SAP National Security Services, which provides secure adoption of SAP services, allowing customers to be in regulatory compliance

The CPA’s office spent $16.9 million, which included:

• $4.8 million to Accenture LLP
• $2 million to Oracle America Inc., which designs and manufactures network computing infrastructure solutions
• $1.6 million to Resource Integrators LLC, which provides system integration solutions

The Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) spent $8.4 million, which included:

• $1.8 million to Nipun Systems, which offers staffing, software development, cloud services and managed services
• $685,519 to Bansar Technologies, which offers IT staff augmentation
• $427,756 to Texas GovLink Inc., a management consulting and technology outsourcing company based in Austin

The Department of State Health Services (DSHS) spent $8 million, which included:

• $3.5 million to SSDataInfo Inc., which offers public health systems design, development, integration and support
• $1.4 to Loblolly Consulting LLC, which provides project management, business analysis, information management, data analytics and enterprise technology services
• $337,467 to Bansar Technologies

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