Tracking the Spend: DIR’s 5 Largest IT Vendors Earned $590M+ in FY2024

The Department of Information Resources’ (DIR) five largest IT purchases between Sept. 1, 2023, and Aug. 2, 2024, included money that directly impacts the state’s IT infrastructure, with more than half a billion going to the spending category “DIR payments to statewide technology center.”

Here, with rounding, are the agency’s five vendors with the highest spending, according to the Texas Comptroller’s “Payment to Payee” visualization:

• $202.7 million to Rackspace Technology Inc., which offers IT services and public cloud management
• $148.9 million to Deloitte Consulting LLP, which provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management and tax services
• $119.4 million to Atos Governmental IT Outsourcing Services LLC, which offers IT services, mainframe services, provides Texas private cloud services and is a reseller of products
• $89.9 million to AT&T, which provides telecommunications, media and technology services
• $30.2 million to Capgemini America Inc., which offers technology and digital transformation services

As to specific categories, spending included the statewide telecommunications network at $87.6 million and purchased contracted services at $19 million.