PA. Treasurer Refuses to Approve $3.5 Million in State Payments for No-Bid Website Work
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/71a5217314a94268a58b2e1a87833088/PA--Outsourcing-Websites
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"State Treasurer Rob McCord said Wednesday he is refusing to pay nearly $3.5 million to a company that Gov. Tom Corbett's administration hired under a no-bid contract to modernize and manage Pennsylvania's executive-branch websites. McCord said Wednesday he has rejected invoices from a subsidiary of Kansas-based NIC Inc. dating back to January because he is concerned about the legality and propriety of the contract.
"This is a case of the Corbett administration cutting corners regarding contracting practices, inflating contract values beyond the original approved amounts, and using a no-bid process without adequately justifying the reasons," he said. "Not only is it a bad way to do business, it is outside the law, and we have an obligation to the taxpayers to reject these payments."
...The five-year, sole-source contract, whose value is very roughly estimated at $10 million year"