How state (CA) dodged its no-bid policies

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 06/12/2002 | Todd Wallack

[Pokey78]

State agencies routinely evaded rules requiring them to seek competing bids on all contracts over $500,000, potentially squandering millions of taxpayer dollars, government records show.

To help agencies cut through red tape, the Legislature created a program eight years ago to allow agencies to place orders for up to $500,000 worth of goods and services from a list of preapproved vendors without going through the process of seeking competitive bids.

[randita]

A fish rots from the head down.

[ImphClinton]

They really need to have people whose job it is to find the best price. They could handle all state orders each day consolidating them to obtain the best possible price. They could even set ut a reverse bidding process among these vendors. Or hire a company that does this to do it for California.

Of course this assumes these vendors are not being repaid for political contrivutions.

Seems it would be easy to check each approved vendor and always go with the lowest total price (including shipping). This would force the vendors to compete. Auditors could eaisly verify procedurs were being followed and the lowest price obtained.

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