AUSTIN – The official responsible for ensuring that the Texas health commission follows outsourcing laws instead helped the agency to break its own rules on a $110 million no-bid contract, according to a long-awaited audit released Thursday.
The official, Arnold “Wayne” Wilson, the agency’s deputy commissioner for procurement, “facilitated noncompliance” by directing Texas Health and Human Services Commission staff to use an inappropriate state purchasing program for the deal, instead of establishing a full bidding process, the auditors found.
The revelation adds another high-ranking official to the list of those accused of acting inappropriately in giving the Medicaid fraud detection contract without competition to Austin technology firm 21CT.
via State audit details failures in no-bid contract mess – Houston Chronicle.