Below is a column from the Bigger Pie Forum Editorial Board:
One area of state government that needs great reform is procurement. It is too easy for the system to be rigged to ensure preferred vendors procure contracts to the exclusion of less connected, but possibly better, providers.
One favored method being used presently due to federal and state COVID-19 relief funds, is for agency heads to declare an “emergency,” which allows them to bypass the normal review process for awarding state contracts.
