One of the state’s highest-profile, most public-facing departments spent more than $900,000 in September on IT services that, in at least one case, reflect its ongoing technological and process modernization.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles made three IT services purchases in September, representing financial commitments from roughly one to three years. Here’s what it spent, with rounding:
• $850,000 with “Homeland Sec US Ctznshp & Immg” for “Renewal with DHS SAVE Program,” in a contract that began Sept. 4 and ends Sept. 30, 2021. The supplier in this case is likely U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services via the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The purchase appears to be a one-year renewal of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, which enables electronic immigration status and benefit eligibility verification.
• $65,000 with Faro Consulting & Solutions LLC of Granite Bay for “SimpliGov workflow and implementation services,” in a contract that began Sept. 11 and ends Sept. 10, 2021. Workflow has been a key focus for DMV officials as they modernize. Among the five problem statements officials reviewed at last month’s DMV Vendor Day 2020 were appointment strategies for field offices, workforce scheduling optimization and managing, and optimizing call center workloads. DMV worked this spring with UiPath, Cambria Solutions and SimpliGov to automate its application process for motor carrier permit renewals — work that, in SimpliGov’s case, “played a very strategic role in our digitization business,” Director Steve Gordon told Techwire in May.
• Zero cash outlay with HSB Solutions Inc. of Sacramento, for “Equinix cross cabinet support for CDT’s security,” in a contract that began Sept. 28 and ends Sept. 27, 2023. Per its website, Equinix offers server cabinets with “direct access to the data distribution system” for “quickly deployable interconnections.” CDT is the California Department of Technology.
