CalOES spent exactly $7,840,567 on those five expenditures, which included software, licensing and services to accompany its new goods. Here, with rounding, is more information on what it spent:
- $2.7 million with Allied Network Solutions Inc. of Rocklin for a “CON-CE Engineer,” on a contract that began Oct. 8 and appears to have no end date. That’s likely a reference to a customer engineer who might provide service along with an entity’s purchase of IT goods.
- $2.5 million, also with Allied, for “Year 1: Salesforce Service Cloud – Unlimited Edition,” with a contract that began Oct. 26 and appears to have no end date. This is probably a reference to the acquisition of storage space in the Salesforce cloud.
- $2 million with AT&T, for “RPD-A-001 / RapidDeploy Edge – PSAP Analytics Concurrent Per Seat License (QTY: 3000),” with a contract of indeterminate length that began Oct. 13. That’s likely referring to an analytics purchase for 3,000 seats at a public safety answering point – essentially, a call center for emergency calls.
- $388,000 with PCM Gov Inc. for “269-12442-ESA3 Microsoft Office Professional Plus – Software Assurance – 1 PC – Enterprise – Win – All Languages GOOFES 76983314 Annual Billing 12MO Coverage Dates: 01-NOV-2020 – 31-OCT-2021.” This is on a contract of indeterminate length that began Oct. 22 and which likely covers Nov. 1-Oct. 31, 2021. It’s probably a reference to the purchase of software assurance for Microsoft Office Professional Plus.
- $348,000 with System Solutions DVBE Inc. of Folsom for “1050111.1803 Server – Core Term License,” on a contract of indeterminate length that began Oct. 20. This is likely a reference to licensing related to a server; System Solutions offers networking services and resources for government IT as well as hardware and software sourcing, per its website.
