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Tracking the Spend: Consumer Affairs’ Top Buys of IT Services in First Quarter

The California Department of Consumer Affairs, part of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, awarded seven contracts in the first quarter for IT services. Together, with rounding, those buys totaled $1,334,098.

The California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) spent a little over $1.3 million on IT services in the first three months of 2022, according to the State Contract and Procurement Registration System.

The department, part of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, awarded seven contracts in the first quarter for IT services. Together, with rounding, those buys totaled $1,334,098. The contracts, dates, amounts and awardees were:
  • $511,200 for business modernization for DCA’s Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, a two-year contract that ends March 20, 2024, with InterVision Systems under a Master Service Agreement (MSA).
  • $404,530 for technical consulting on DCA’s BreEZe licensing and enforcement system under a one-year contract that began Feb. 11 with Visionary Integration Professionals under an MSA.
  • $394,455 for business modernization consulting with RMA Consulting Group under an MSA contract running from Feb. 16 through Sept. 21, 2024.
  • $7,200 for electronic library with Relx, which provides analytics and decision tools, in a one-year Master Agreement contract that began Jan. 1 and expires Dec. 31.
  • $6,700 for “diagnosis” with Melzak Media, a provider of audio and video solutions, in a competitive award that runs from March 29 through June 28.
  • $5,568 for software, appliance and subscription and support for software-as-a-service, in a non-competitively bid contract with IBM that began March 30.
  • $4,445 for a two-year service contract with De Novo Ink for a Sharp Model MX-M465N printer, under a competitive contract running from March 22, 2022, through April 30, 2024.
Dennis Noone is Executive Editor of Industry Insider. He is a career journalist, having worked at small-town newspapers and major metropolitan dailies including USA Today in Washington, D.C.