Contract High is an occasional series looking at how Texas outsourced crucial state services for two decades — and got smoked.
Amid a gusher of news in recent months over a handful of troubled state contracts, lawmakers have vowed to get a handle on a vast network of taxpayer-funded deals between private firms and state agencies totaling tens of billions of dollars.
The spotlight is brightest on the Health and Human Services Commission, which oversees more in contracts than any other state agency. While a questionable no-bid $20 million contract with Austin tech firm 21CT has sparked resignations and an FBI investigation, that now-canceled deal represents less than 0.1 percent of the Health Commission’s $60 billion in contracts.
via Details Murky on State’s Largest Contracts | The Texas Tribune.