The TEA is tasked with improving outcomes for all public school students, who number 3.7 million across the state in 739 districts, according to documentation.
Here are the education agency’s top five vendors for April, according to the comptroller’s “Payments to Payee” visualization. Amounts are rounded up:
- $1 million to Texas DIR, offering technology solutions to state and local government entities
- $593,071 to Amplify Education Inc., selling K-12 curriculum and assessment programs
- $158,080 to Presidio Networked Solutions Group, offering cloud, cyber and data services and solutions, among others
- $115,543 to Trademark Media Corporation, doing business as Mighty Citizen, offering branding and digital transformation services
- $64,800 to Quisitive, a Microsoft solutions partner delivering cloud solutions and services
Regarding specific quarterly expenditures across categories in April, the TEA spent $84,634 on IT services, $643,283 on intangible property — computer software — expensed and $50,905 on purchased contracted services.
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.
