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Tracking the Spend: Health and Human Services Commission

Second-quarter IT spending hit more than $134.9 million for the state’s Health and Human Services Commission.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) spent about $60.8 million on its five largest purchases of IT goods in the second quarter of 2023.

The agency oversees various programs and organizations, including clinics, health organizations and resource centers; foster care; Medicaid; the children’s health insurance program; Medicare; palliative care and women and children services.

Here, with rounding, are those purchases, according to the Texas Comptroller’s “Payment to Payee” visualization:

  • $25.5 million to the Texas Department of Information Resources, which offers technology solutions to state and local government entities
  • $11.1 million to Vexcel Corp., a subsidiary of Microsoft that provides end-to-end solutions
  • $10.9 million to Deloitte Consulting, which provides audit and assurance, tax, consulting and risk and financial advisory services
  • $7.7 million to Insight Public Sector, which provides hardware, software and cloud solutions and services
  • $5.6 million to Conduent State Healthcare, which provides health-care systems to help reduce costs, create engagement and advance health equity

Regarding specific purchases, HHSC spent $17 million on purchased contracted services, $23.7 million on computer services, $59.8 million on IT services and $10.8 million on computer software.

More than $134.9 million was spent in this quarter, according to the comptroller data and the Industry Insider — Texas IT Spending Dashboard.

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.