[gieriscm]

The technology office is one of two city agencies that are given some leeway in purchase orders. It can dole out noncompetitive orders up to $500,000, compared with a $100,000 limit for other agencies.

No wonder there's so much waste, fraud, and corruption in DC government! Even a $100k limit is too high. Where I work everything over $5k needs three bids unless there's a good (aka heavily scrutinized) reason to sole-source the purchase.

[OneWingedShark]

>No wonder there’s so much waste, fraud, and corruption in DC government! Even a $100k limit is too high.

We need to shorten their leashes to... oh, say, $200.