Nov. 2007 was our first report on California spending hoping the research may spark interest in contracting with the government, specifically with California small businesses. We followed this up with a month-to-month report of purchasing in IT services and goods for the month of November 2008 (short summary - the government purchased over $100 MILLION each of these months).

Today, we’ve concluded another comparison - IT Purchases from July 1 through February 18, 2019 - 2020 compared to July 1, 2021, through February 18, 2022!

Summary

$ 1,896,000,000 total IT spend / contracted for Period 7.1.19 - 2.18.20 (rounded back in those days :) )
$1,992,845,749. total IT spend / contracted for Period 7.1.21 - 2.18.22
Small Business
$155,000,000 IT Goods spend / contracted for Period 7.1.19 - 2.18.20
$145,449,332 IT Goods spend / contracted for Period 7.1.21 - 2.18.22
- $132,309,610 IT Services

Added DVBE to end of period 2022

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE)

$3,489,029 IT Services spend / contracted for Period 7.1.21 - 2.18.22
$49,885,835 IT Goods spend / contracted for Period 7.1.21 - 2.18.22

How much the California government spent in information technology - from YB Marketing LLC

IT Purchases in California state government

Also, total transactions were:

13,315 total IT services and goods transactions

4,892 total small business transactions

1,205 total DVBE transactions

There are many other very interesting data elements present such as WHO is winning most contracts and contract vehicles are most in use. Please email us if this is interesting info and we will provide it!