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Posted on 04/18/2002 3:35:43 AM PDT by snopercod
Edited on 04/14/2004 10:05:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Deal to buy Oracle software in bulk was likely unnecessary, audit says.
SACRAMENTO -- An unprecedented $122.6 million state computer contract with Oracle Corp. - approved without competitive bidding and touted as a major cost saver - could wind up costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, the state auditor said Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
First electricity, now this.
I never saw a non apple computer in a classroom until I went to college.
The voting blunder will be even more expensive. Will they re-elect their lightweight guvnah?
The man is worse than a politician, he wants us tagged and tracked so he can make a lot of money.
A DEAL WHICH MEANT the state of California spent millions of dollars on Oracle software for non-existent employees is to be investigated by the Department of Justice. Two days ago, a report to the Californian legislature issued a report saying that the state had ordered database software for 270,000 state employees when it only had 230,000 employees on its staff.
The order was made by an employee who previously worked for Oracle, and a consultancy was awarded $28 million for brokering the deal, reports said.
But now according to the Mercury News, the deal will be investigated by the Department of Justice, which wants to know why an order was placed for more than $120 million.
The rationale for the deal was that the software would save Californian taxpayers $111 million over the next 10 years.
This paper says that the consultancy, Logicon, had made secret side agreements with Oracle which accounted for its big bung.
What the writer did not followup on is the money that Whoreacle and its little pimps sent to Davis and other Rats to smooth the way here.
When it comes to the Rats in Kali and any decision like this, just follow the money trail which the mediots/pressitutes never do.
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No, this is what happens when government cronies are too stupid to run proper analysis and reading of the fine print.
Of course the price jack could be the result from someone else getting a kickback.
Not me, bro... I just wanna say to Gray Devious... Naughty naughty, mussent do! That's another foul on you!
Anybody wanna help me start still another state-wide ballot measure that says just like in baskerball... 5 fouls, Governor, and your out!!! What a corrupt little tin horn prick!!!
Of COURSE he declined comment. He's received campaign money from these companies who benefited from this contract that will cost taxpayers millions.
I say again: if a Republican played half the money games Davis played, not only would the Democrats have demanded an investigation and immediate resignation (ala Quackenbush), but the Republicans may have even joined them!
Davis is CORRUPT, POWER-HUNGRY and a MEGALOMANIAC. His SANITY is even questionable.
SACRAMENTO -- The state's decision to approve a disputed $122.6 million software contract with Oracle Corp. reached into the highest levels of Gov. Gray Davis' administration, according to testimony Thursday before a joint legislative committee.
Susan Kennedy, Davis' deputy chief of staff, was among a half-dozen top officials who signed off on the May 2001 agreement, Davis' top fiscal aide testified. Kennedy is also Davis' cabinet-affairs secretary and has wide influence over government operations.
The state auditor reported earlier that the flawed agreement, which its supporters said would save money through bulk software purchasing for up to 270,000 computers, could actually cost the state up to $41 million more than if there never had been a contract.
Finance Director Tim Gage, who writes Davis' budgets, told the committee that Kennedy signed a "governor's action request" giving a final green light to the contract. Others who signed included Barry Keene, director of the Department of General Services, which tracks state contracts; Steve Nissen of the governor's Office of Planning and Research; Elias Cortes, head of the Department of Information Technology, or DOIT; Aileen Adams, Davis' trade adviser; and Gage.
Davis spokeswoman Hilary McLean declined to comment on Gage's testimony.
"We're reviewing all the facts associated with the contract, the auditor's report and the testimony today, and beyond that we are going to decline to comment," McLean said.
The earlier audit did not mention Kennedy's signature approving the project, which was disclosed in testimony Thursday before the joint committee.
The contract was approved largely because of the cost-savings projections of Logicon Corp., a consulting firm that stood to make $28.5 million from the deal. The contract is under review by the state Attorney General's Office.
Oracle said in a statement that it welcomed "any opportunity to discuss this (audit) report," and that it contained "serious and inappropriate misrepresentations about our business practices, as well as inaccuracies and questionable assumptions." Logicon did not comment.
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