CA: San Jose chief information officer resigns (CivicCenter/RiggedBid'Gate)

Mercury News ^ | 8/9/04 | Aaron C. Davis

[NormsRevenge]

San Jose's Chief Information Officer Wandzia Grycz has resigned from her post as the city's top technology official amid accusations she helped cover up the way the city improperly allowed Cisco Systems to shape an $8 million contract for the new City Hall.

Grycz, 52, had forcefully told the city council in June that Cisco had nothing to do with the public bidding process to install the lucrative computer-and-phone network.

But according to preliminary findings of a city audit due out today, city technology officials allowed Cisco to design the new building's network; write the entire list of 18,000 Cisco parts the city would buy; and prep Grycz and her staff to defend the plan before the council.

Grycz and members of her staff also allegedly lied to investigators during the audit investigation.

City Manager Del Borgsdorf released a memo at noontime on Monday stating that he had received Grycz's letter of resignation on Sunday and that after a personal conversation with her on Monday morning, had accepted her resignation.

[NormsRevenge]

Resignation effective immediately.

One down and quite a few more to go. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

uhh, Mayor Gonzales,, will you be returning the $13,000 that Cisco donated to your campaigns?

The buck does stop with you, right?

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[NormsRevenge]

Thanks! I was gonna post the pic,, but.. That is even better. ;-)

[RIghtWingAvenger]

"Wandzia Grycz"

What the hell?? Is that a name, or a damned eye chart at the optometrist's office? BWAHAHAHA.

[lelio]

write the entire list of 18,000 Cisco parts the city would buy

Not to defend the actions, but that's part of the reason for this whole mess: who on earth has time to keep track of that? And its not like Cisco (or any manufacturer) makes it any easier either, requiring Part 12jkl13 to connect to Part 12312435az.

And no body wants to be on the IT team that budgeted $5M for a project only to discover that they need another $2M in parts as they didn't go through the 18k parts and see if they all can connect to one another.

How many people work in the San Jose city government? I can see each person requiring an IP phone, there to be a switch for every 20 people, and a router for every 100 people. So for 100 people you have around 120 pieces of equiment. To get up to 18k you need around 10k people. I suppose that's doable.

[eno_]

This IS corrupt.

It is also very common in the telecom industry: You write the RFP so that only one bidder can bid successfully.

[NormsRevenge]

Point well made on the parts is not just parts argument.

That's why we hire pros to do the job. ;-)

This is more of a case of locking out others that may have compatible equipment offerings and thus locking the city into a single vendor source with associated single source costs adding up over time, imo.

I know, it happens all the time, but how much monies were slushed around in the goings on here.

[ßuddaßudd]

I wonder if Cisco ever billed the city for any consultation and IT design? I wonder if they waived that in lieu of getting the contract to supply the parts. . .

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks, good point. I'm sure that will be checked as the investigation moves ahead.

[Bobibutu]

Good bet

[runningbear]

You know, utimately, it is San Jose Mayor Gonzalez who should be on the hot seat! It is 'he' who knew this crap, and should of known it all along. Too bad the cost of the 'recall' was too costly. It would of been worth him, bounced off the seat. Hopefully a better 'mover and shaker' mayor elect will be more for the people in the next year or so......

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