Clarion Ledger looks at no bid state contracts

State awards billions in no-bid contracts

State government spends billions of taxpayers’ dollars — nearly $6.5 billion in the last four years — through “no-bid” contracts, with little oversight or transparency.

It’s a system ripe for overspending, malfeasance and cronyism. And it’s one that apparently allowed corruption to fester for years, with the head of the state prisons system allegedly taking $2 million in bribes to hand out hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts.

Clarion Ledger
12/20/14