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The Texas Military Department spent exactly $136,100,318 on 318 purchase orders during the final quarter.
Compared to just one month – June – the amounts for IT and telecommunications aren't as high as past purchases. According to Industry Insider — Texas’ IT Spending Dashboard, companies that sold to the department during June included Motorola, price tag of $3.9 million, and Dell Marketing, price tag of $1.5 million.
In the final quarter, the most obvious technical spends totaled close to $300,000, while the highest amount went to a storm services company that assists with recovery efforts.
Here, with rounding, is where the agency spent technical money, based on data from the Texas Comptroller’s (CPA) “Payment to Payee” visualization.
- $67,000 to Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- $63,491 to AT&T
- $61,635 to AT&T Mobility
- $52,300 to C.B.K Computing
- $43,187 to Verizon Wireless
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.