Texas Gov IT & Telecom Purchases - Who Bought What from Whom

See every technology purchase Texas state agencies, cities, counties, school districts and universities report through the state's DIR cooperative contracts: the buyer, vendor, reseller, brand, product, quantity, unit price and date, from official Texas data.

Who is this for?

• Software, hardware, telecom and IT-services companies that sell to Texas public-sector buyers
• Resellers and channel partners who want to know which agencies buy which brands, and through whom
• Government sales and capture teams planning territories, renewals and pricing
• Market and competitor analysts tracking public-sector spending by brand, product or vendor

What can I use it for?

1. Find buyers for your product. Example: every school district that bought laptops last quarter, with brand, quantity and price paid, so you know who's refreshing devices and what they paid.
2. Track a competitor. Filter by brand or vendor (e.g. ServiceNow, Cisco) to see which agencies buy from them, through which resellers, and how much.
3. Price smarter. Compare real unit prices public buyers paid for the same product before you quote.

Turn on Only new since my last run and schedule it monthly to get only the newly reported purchases each time.

Inputs (all optional)

Input	What it does	Example
From / To report month	Which monthly vendor reports to include (YYYY-MM, from 2025-09). Leave empty for the newest month.	2026-01 to 2026-06
Buyer types	Only these buyer kinds	K-12 School, State Agency
Buyer name contains	Only buyers whose name has this text	Independent School District
Vendor or reseller name contains	Only purchases from this vendor or reseller	Dell, SHI
Brand contains	Only this brand	Microsoft
Product types	Only these product types	Software, Computers, Networking
Keyword in contract or product description	Only purchases mentioning this word	Laptop, Cybersecurity
Minimum purchase amount ($)	Skip small line items	10000
Sort by	Biggest purchase, newest invoice, or buyer name A-Z	Biggest purchase first
Maximum results	Stop after this many purchase lines. You only pay for what you get.	100
Only new since my last run / Memory name	Skip purchases you already received	On / K-12 team

Output

Each row is one purchase line from a vendor's monthly sales report. Here are 5 real rows (June 2026):

customerName	customerType	vendorName	resellerName	brandName	productSubtype	quantity	unitPrice	purchaseAmount
Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport	Local Government	SHI/GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.	-	Microsoft	General (Software)	3,269	598.55	1,956,659.95
Texas Department of Transportation	State Agency	Carahsoft Technology Corporation	Pure Business Solutions, LLC	ServiceNow	General (Software)	1,400	1,129.32	1,581,048.00
Texas Department of Public Safety	State Agency	Panasonic Corporation of North America	Rugged Solutions America, LLC	Panasonic	Ruggedized (Computers)	400	3,610.00	1,444,000.00
San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District	K-12 School	HP Inc.	InTech Southwest Services LLC	HPI	Laptop	1,750	293.00	512,750.00
Waxahachie Independent School District	K-12 School	Dell Marketing LP	-	Dell	Laptop	816	417.01	340,280.16

Every row also includes reportMonth, fiscalYear, productType, orderDate, invoiceDate, poNumber, invoiceNumber, contractNumber, contractDescription, contractType, contractEndDate, HUB (historically underutilized business) types, bulkPurchaseAgreement, and for IT staffing contracts the staffingRole, staffingTechnology and staffingLevel (job details only, never the worker's name).

{
  "reportMonth": "2026-06",
  "customerName": "Waxahachie Independent School District",
  "customerType": "K-12 School",
  "vendorName": "Dell Marketing LP",
  "brandName": "Dell",
  "productType": "Computers",
  "productSubtype": "Laptop",
  "quantity": 816,
  "unitPrice": 417.01,
  "purchaseAmount": 340280.16,
  "orderDate": "2026-04-28",
  "invoiceDate": "2026-06-06",
  "contractNumber": "DIR-CPO-5792",
  "contractDescription": "Dell Branded Products and Related Services",
  "source": "Texas Department of Information Resources - Vendor Sales Reports for Cooperative & Tele Contracts (data.texas.gov, dataset a743-wj72)"
}

How much does it cost?

$3 per 1,000 purchase lines ($0.003 each), and nothing else from this Actor.

• The top 100 purchases of a month cost $0.30.
• A filtered pull, such as one brand's sales to school districts for a quarter, usually costs a few dollars or less.
• The whole state for one month (about 80,000 lines) costs about $240, so use filters.

Use Maximum results or Apify's "max cost per run" to cap spending.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) requires vendors on its cooperative contracts to report every sale each month. DIR publishes those reports on the Texas Open Data Portal (data.texas.gov, dataset "VSR Data for Cooperative & Tele Contracts FY2026+"). No logins and no private sources.

How fresh is it? DIR updates the dataset monthly. Vendors report after each month closes, so the newest month is usually 2-3 months behind today. By default the Actor picks the newest month published.

Does it include personal information? No. The state data includes staff names (buyer contacts, vendor contract managers, DIR contract managers and IT staffing contractor names). The Actor never outputs any of those fields. It only copies an approved list of business fields. Vendor and reseller names are blanked if they don't look like a company.

Does this cover all government spending? No. It covers technology purchases made through DIR cooperative and telecom contracts, which is a major buying channel for Texas public-sector technology but not all of it (agencies also buy through their own contracts).

Why does one invoice appear on several rows? Each row is one line item. An invoice with laptops and docking stations shows up as two rows. Exact duplicate lines in the state's file are removed, and you're not charged for them.

What about data before September 2025? Older years (FY2010-2025) are in a separate archived DIR dataset with a different format. Ask on the Issues tab if you need it.

Something's wrong or missing? Open an issue on the Issues tab and I'll take a look.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Texas Department of Information Resources. Data is provided as published by the state.