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Posted on 05/05/2002 12:49:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/14/2004 10:05:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A $95 million state software no-bid contract is the center of controversy.
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Logicon Will Help Undo Oracle Deal
There has been such a flood of articles , I am uncertain whether it really has anything fresh in it!
Logicon first began talking to state officials about signing a broad software licensing agreement in February 2001, Carrier said. Up until a week before the contract was signed on May 31, it was intended to be a deal between Logicon and the state, with Logicon arranging separately with Oracle for licensing. But state officials decided to contract directly with Oracle because they thought that would help them better meet the state's rules for contracts that avoid competitive bidding, Carrier said.
Logicon had been hired by the Department of Information Technology for $93,000 in June 2000 to write a "white paper" analyzing various approaches to buying software licenses on a large scale. The company delivered a draft analysis, but never finalized the paper because the state showed no interest in the draft, said Neil H. O'Donnell, a San Francisco attorney representing Logicon.
Logicon was never paid, and that contract was formally severed in November 2001, he said.
What is the State getting exactly for the millions?
Was there to be an application to be written using Oracle?
Were there already some existing Oracle Data Base applications running?
Looks like there was some incompetency in the technical ranks!
A while back, the State of California signed a deal with Oracle to purchase $122.6 million worth of Oracle software. The contract was made without any bid process (which appears to be a violation of state law). The theory was that by making a large buy all at once, the State "could save money". Only problem is that no-one in state government actually seems to need this software; they still haven't figured out any application for it.Quoted summary of what is going on here from Steven Den Beste's wonderful website, U.S.S. Clueless.The deal was approved by Barry Keene, director of California's Department of General Services. He's a Davis appointee. He has resigned from his position.
Now it turns out that Oracle gave a check for $25,000 to a Davis aide named Arun Baheti, the state's director of e-government. Baheti has resigned from his position.
Note the timing: Oracle promised the contribution in April of 2001, and delivered the check on June 5, 2001, a couple of days after the contract was signed.
Oracle's Vice President of government affairs, Ken Glueck, says that it's all coincidence. There was no intent to buy influence with the contribution. He says he didn't even know about the contract. Ken Glueck has not resigned from his position.
Oracle is the company which wants to build a national database to support a national ID card that all residents of the US would be required to carry. Be very afraid.
In the end, if given enough attention, this might not only be enough to hurt Gray-out Davis, it might stick enough mud to Larry Ellison to make other Politcos back away from him on the NatID scene. </hope>
The last 3 letters of this word may be the appropriate ones: CON
Clothilde V. Hewlett as Interim Director of the California Department of General Services
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Is there a connection between California's Dept--GENeral Services Administration and GENSA?
People might like to read about this organization. Who knows it and its officers could be coming up or not in the Whoreacle Mess.
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