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 — TexasITSpending 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.