The California Department of Technology (CDT) spent $57,722,325 on those top five expenditures with more than half of that — nearly $31 million — on its top two purchases. The remaining three of the top five purchases comprised a combined spend of nearly $27 million. Here’s what CDT spent, with rounding:
- $16 million with Crayon Software Experts LLC for “M365 E3 FromSA GCC Unified ShrdSvr ALNG SubsVL MVL PerfUsr Term: 2/01/2020 ? 1/31/2021.” This was a three-year contract that began Feb. 1. It most likely reflects the ongoing need for Microsoft 365 E3 government community cloud shared servers — and a volume licensing purchase.
- $15 million with PCMG Inc. for “EntMobandSecE5FullGCC ShrdSvr ALNG SU MVL EntMobandSecE3Gcc PerUsr Enterprise Products Term 01/01/2020 ? 12/31/2020.” This was a two-year contract that began Jan. 1. It’s likely a purchase via Microsoft Volume Licensing of the company’s Enterprise Mobility and Security E5 suite for government community cloud shared servers.
- $10.2 million with Zones LLC for “M365 E3 FromSA Gcc Unified ShrdSvr ALNG SubsVL MVL PerUsr Term: 09/01/2020 ? 08/31/2021.” This, too, was a three-year contract that began Sept. 1 and probably reflects the ongoing need for Microsoft 365 E3 government community cloud shared servers.
- $8.5 million with Crayon Software Experts for “WinE3 ALNG SubsVL MVL PerUsr Term: 5/1/2020-4/30/2021.” This was a three-year contract that began May 1 and is likely a Microsoft Volume Licensing purchase of Windows for E3.
- $8.2 million with International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) for “Hardware & Services – Gold Camp.” This was a two-year contract that began Jan. 1, and likely affirms the ongoing need for IBM hardware and services at CDT’s Rancho Cordova data center.
