Tracking the Spend: Comptroller of Public Accounts

The agency responsible for serving as the state’s tax collector, chief accountant, chief revenue estimator and chief treasurer spent approximately $13 million on its five largest IT purchases during the fourth quarter of 2022.

According to the Texas Comptroller’s (CPA) “Payment to Payee” visualization, the CPA spent $13,598,579 from Oct. 4 through Dec. 29.

Here, with rounding, were the agency’s top five tech spends:

• $5.7 million to Accenture LLP, which offers risk management, enterprise architecture application development, analysis, cloud computing, system integration, testing and security services. 
• $2.8 million to Oracle American Inc., which designs, manufactures and markets network computing infrastructure solutions.
• $1.8 million to Summus Industries Inc., which offers procurement, IT deployment and managed services.
• $1.7 million to Resource Integrators LLC, which provides system integration solutions and senior information technology and management consultants to assist clients.
• $1.6 million to Software One Inc., which offers end-to-end software and cloud technology solutions. 

As for specific purchases, the agency spent $9.2 million on information technology services, $3 million on computer software maintenance and repair, and $1.4 million on new computer software.

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.