California state IT purchasing · the public record

State Controller

What the state has announced this department will buy, what landed on its purchase record this week, and five years of what it bought, all from the state's own published lists and procurement registry. The record runs back to May 1, 2013.

Org code 0840Updated Nov 2, 2026Window Nov 3, 2021 to Nov 2, 2026All departments
2
projects announced or under way
0
IT solicitations open now
2
orders new on the record this week
$984.4M
IT spend, five years, 1,030 orders
What is coming

Upcoming projects and purchasing

What the state has already published about this department's next technology money, newest commitments first: projects on CDT's approval lifecycle, projects under way, solicitations open now, and audits whose responses name what will be bought. The budget request behind each one, and who owns it, is in the runbook.

Projects under way, with their oversight rating

  • California State Payroll System Project (CSPS)
    GreenTotal cost $1.24BCriticality HighCDT's oversight list
  • Unclaimed Property Management System Replacement (UPMSR)
    YellowTotal cost $13.4MCriticality MediumCDT's oversight list
New on the record · Oct 26, 2026 to Nov 1, 2026
2 orders, $2.3M

mostly Professional & Managed Services; Oracle on the paper; largest supplier of record West Advanced Technologies Inc.

Orders dated in the last seven days of the record, counted once each at the order total. Order titles, line items and the buyer of record are in the runbook.

What they bought

Spend by fiscal year

Purchase-order grand totals by the state's July-to-June fiscal year, each order counted once. The striped bar is the current year to date.

FY 2021-22FY 2022-23FY 2023-24FY 2024-25FY 2025-26FY 2026-27*

* current fiscal year, to Nov 2, 2026. Lifetime on the record: $1.06B across 2,842 orders.

Top categories

Where the five-year money went, by product category. Share is of the department's five-year IT total.

  1. Professional & Managed Services 31 orders$795.7M
  2. Cloud & Hosting 7 orders$79.1M
  3. Software & Licensing 379 orders$46.0M
  4. Support & Maintenance 110 orders$18.6M
  5. Print & Imaging 109 orders$5.0M
  6. End User Computing 179 orders$4.4M
  7. Security & Identity 36 orders$4.3M
  8. Servers & Compute 41 orders$3.1M
  9. Non-IT / Facilities 30 orders$1.6M
  10. Network Infrastructure 20 orders$1.2M

Suppliers of record

Who held the paper: the supplier named on the order, which in California is usually the reseller, not the maker.

  1. CGI Technologies & SOL Inc 1 order$524.7M
  2. Department of Technology 3 orders$139.3M
  3. Crowe LLP 5 orders$70.6M
  4. Deloitte Consulting LLP 1 order$42.0M
  5. Guidehouse Inc 1 order$22.2M
  6. Money Network Financial LLC 1 order$21.3M
  7. Kelmar Associates LLC 1 order$19.9M
  8. West Advanced Technologies Inc 4 orders$17.3M
  9. The Ifish Group Inc 1 order$13.2M
  10. International BUS Mach Corp 3 orders$12.2M

Manufacturers on the paper

Per maker, read from the line items, each line counted once and never more than the order it sits on. This is the figure to quote; it is a purchase record, not an install base.

  1. Oracle 15 orders$11.1M
  2. IBM 26 orders$2.4M
  3. Qualys 14 orders$2.3M
  4. HP Inc. 19 orders$1.6M
  5. Palo Alto Networks 10 orders$1.5M
  6. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 38 orders$1.3M
  7. VMware 22 orders$1.3M
  8. Adobe 140 orders$1.1M
  9. Splunk 8 orders$1.0M
  10. Cisco Systems 15 orders$900K

A manufacturer absent here may have been bought through a statewide contract that never names it on this department's paper. Absence is a question, not a finding.

What this page does not show

The runbook for State Controller

Every order and line item with its filing, the buyers of record and program owners by name, the renewal calendar with term dates, the budget requests behind each project above, and the plays this record supports, each dated. A Territory Scan ranks this department against the other 175.