When a relatively small high-tech company lands a $20 million contract with a large state agency without having to compete for it, even though the company has no direct experience with the matter at hand, eyebrows raise and foreheads furrow, particularly when the company also is in line for a supplemental contract for $90 million. Even in a state inured to a system of one-party dominance that often seems to redound to the benefit of friends, family and supporters, the arrangement between the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Austin-based 21CT to install a Medicaid fraud-detection system seemed a bit out of the ordinary. (It certainly seemed that way to 21CT’s more experienced competitors.)