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Luis: US Local Governments Spend $24B on Human Services Software

Tristan Luis · Case Management Software Hits $200k MRR Bootstrapped, Now Raising · Oct 14, 2021 · at 2:44

Tristan Luis, CEO of Casebook PBC, discusses the total addressable market for social and human services government software.

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“Twenty-four billion dollars is spent on software in that space by the U.S. Government in state and counties level, and yet there isn't a platform for this particular space.”

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The claim, plainly

U.S. state and county governments spend $24 billion on software in the human services space.

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Assessment

The $24 billion figure accurately reflects the broader annual technology and IT expenditures (including software, IT consulting, systems integration, and legacy maintenance) incurred by U.S. state and local health and human services (HHS) agencies around 2018–2021. For example, a 2018 Government Business Council report estimated state and local HHS technology spending at approximately $26 billion. However, software licenses and SaaS applications alone constitute only 15% to 30% of public sector IT spending (with total state and local software spending across all public functions combined estimated between $18 billion and $36 billion in 2021). The speaker conflated total HHS IT/technology spending with pure software spending.

A June 2018 Government Business Council report estimated U.S. state and local health and human services technology spending at $26 billion annually, representing the largest single public tech vertical.
Center for Digital Government and analyst data (IDC, Gartner) indicate total state and local IT spending was ~$120 billion in 2021, with software representing roughly 15% to 30% ($18B–$36B) across all government verticals combined.
VisualVault procurement analysis (2026) valued the entire global government case management software market at $8.26 billion in 2024.

Checked against

[1] getlatka.com [2] aecf.org [3] govexec.com [4] cgi.com [5] smartcitiesdive.com [6] partnersforpublicgood.org [7] icma.org [8] idc.com

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