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Post by Logan on Apr 24, 2017 2:31:52 GMT -6
The Department of Administrative Services is Ohio's state purchasing, personnel, technology and housekeeping agency. Maybe it should be renamed Ohio's no-bid department -- given the millions of dollars of unbid information technology contracts exposed by a recent Columbus Dispatch investigation. The department counters that the state Controlling Board repeatedly recognized, as recently as June 2015, its need to waive "competitive selection" -- apparently a euphemism for higher costs and insider dealing. Millions of dollars' worth of these sweet, no-bid deals were won by a firm staffed by former DAS employees that's also tied to one of Gov. John Kasich's cabinet members, the Dispatch found. Read more: www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/04/ohios_no-bid_administrative_se.html
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