Bidding introduced after IT fiasco
3 April 2012
California has moved to ensure all public-sector contracts go through a bidding process after a failed IT deal turned into a political scandal.
A no-bid contract between the state purchasers and database software giant Oracle hit the headlines when state auditors said the taxpayers had paid $41 million too much for a new IT system for its 270,000 staff.
Auditors said that the $95 million system had still not been used by employees a year after it was installed and that savings had been hugely...