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Tracking the Spend: Department of Family and Protective Services

The department’s five largest November IT services transactions hit more than $15 million.

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The agency responsible for families’ and children’s welfare and other social services across the state spent more than $15.1 million on its five largest purchases of IT services in November.

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) spent exactly $15,222,679 on its five largest such buys. Here, with rounding, is where that money went, based on data from the Texas Comptroller’s (CPA) “Payment to Payee” visualization.

• $10 million to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
• $2.7 million to Premier Protections and Investigations.
• $1.1 million to the Texas Department of Information Resources.
• $857,699 to AT&T Mobility National Accounts.
• $519,699 to Presido Networked Solutions Group.

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.
Rae D. DeShong is a Dallas-based staff writer and has written for The Dallas Morning News and worked as a community college administrator.