OCA provides resources to the judicial branch of Texas. This includes technical assistance, electronic filing (e-filing), case management and remote technology services to trial courts. It also includes IT solutions for appellate courts, specialty courts and judicial branch agencies, according to documentation.
During the course of the year, OCA spent at least $23 million with Tyler, based in Plano, $1.3 million with iDocket and $1 million with Software One.
Here are the agency’s top five vendors in Q4, according to the comptroller’s “Payments to Payee” visualization. Amounts are rounded up:
- $5.8 million to Tyler Technologies, which provides software and services at all levels of the public sector
- $534,760 to AutoMon LLC, which provides software for courts and is a division of Catalis Courts and Land Records LLC
- $346,235 to CDW-G, which offers software solutions and services to its government partners
- $234,369 to iDocket, which offers software for judicial processes and the statewide uniform case management system
- $151,154 to SHI Government Solutions Inc., which offers software products and related maintenance, technical and training services
Regarding specific quarterly expenditures across IT-related categories in Q4, OCA spent $6.4 million on communication services, $701,946 on IT services and $369,327 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.
