{"id":2905,"date":"2011-12-19T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2011-12-19T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T15:09:15","slug":"no-bid-spending-up-24-tulsa-world-investigation-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/12\/19\/no-bid-spending-up-24-tulsa-world-investigation-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"No-Bid Spending Up 24%, Tulsa World Investigation Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spending by state agencies on no-bid contracts increased 24 percent from fiscal years 2010 to 2011, a Tulsa World<\/em> investigation<\/a> has revealed.<\/p>

The paper\u2019s Curtis Killman reports that about 74 state agencies issued 1,376 no-bid contracts worth about $126 million in FY 2011:<\/p>\n

Contracts were issued without bids for items ranging from $48,000 for photocopiers to $2 million for out-of-state schooling for special education students, a Tulsa World analysis of state reports shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>

All of the no-bid purchases were lawful under Oklahoma\u2019s \u201csole source\u201d or \u201csole brand\u201d provisions, the World<\/em> reported, but required justification letters were \u201cwoefully lacking in detail,\u201d according to the paper.<\/p>

The state Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services \u201cconsistently led\u201d other agencies in sole-source spending, the World<\/em> reported.<\/p>

Rounding out the World<\/em>\u2019s 2011 sole-source contracts list:<\/p>\n

\n
    \n
  1. Mental Health\/Substance Abuse Services: $42 million<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Human Services: $14.6 million<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Education: $14 million<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Commerce: $6.6 million<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Public Safety: $5.3 million<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Health: $4.2 million<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>

    The World<\/em> examined Office of State Finance records from 2007-2011. The paper has compiled the records in a searchable database<\/a>. The paper found that sole-source contracts peaked at $142.6 million in FY 2009, declined to $101 million in FY 2010 and increased again this fiscal year.<\/em><\/p>

    <\/em>The OSF defended the increase:<\/p>\n

    “Sometimes complex contracts start off being competitively bid, but wind up continuing as a sole source because it would be more expensive to start over,” the agency’s spokesman, Ron Jenkins, said in an email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Spending by state agencies on no-bid contracts increased 24 percent from fiscal years 2010 to 2011, a Tulsa World investigation has revealed.The paper\u2019s Curtis Killman reports that about 74 state agencies issued 1,376 no-bid contracts worth about $126 million in FY 2011: Contracts were issued without bids for items ranging from $48,000 for photocopiers to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[95,245,66,246,244,45,36,112],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2915,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}