The California Department of Technology spent $12,946,475.30 in making those buys — including more than $10 million for a single purchase that will likely help a large number of state employees do their jobs for years to come. Here is what it spent, with rounding:
• $10.2 million with Auburn, Wash.-based Zones LLC for “M365 E3 FromSA GCC Unified ShrdSvr ALNG SubsVL MVL PerUsr,” in a contract that began Sept. 1 and ends Aug. 31, 2023. That’s likely a reference to Microsoft Volume Licensing of its Microsoft 365 E3 product — and a price reflective of the three-year contract.
• $1.3 million with Cary, N.C.-based SAS Institute Inc. for “MNF – SAS Mainframe Software License Support Renewal,” with a contract that runs from Sept. 1-Aug. 31, 2021. That refers to a software support renewal, and may reference a multi-network firewall purchase for SAS’ software.
• $515,000 with Gartner Inc. for “Gartner for IT Executives … CIO Signature Member and Delegate Subscription” for two users, on a contract running Sept. 1-Aug. 31, 2021. Per its website, Gartner’s executive programs offer tools, insight and knowledge to more than 7,000 chief information officers and senior IT leaders around the world.
• $485,000 with Serena Software Inc. for “MNF – ChangeMan Software License Support Renewal,” a pact that runs Sept. 1-Aug. 31, 2021. That’s another reference to a software support renewal, and potentially to a multi-network firewall purchase as well. Serena was one of the biggest Application Lifecycle Management vendors when acquired nearly 4.5 years ago by Micro Focus. Its ChangeMan ZMF is an automated change management system to make changes to mainframe software.
• $445,000 to CA Inc. for “MNF- CA Program Products for the City of Los Angeles (CoLA) Software and Support” on a one-year contract that began Sept. 30. CA Technologies, based in New York City, has been a subsidiary of Broadcom Inc. since late 2018. This purchase could be connected to Los Angeles’ migration of its mainframe business applications to CDT’s State Data Center in Rancho Cordova, which was completed in March.
