No-bid OK followed S. Africa junket / Software firm had paid two school officials' way.
Source: By Ken Dilanian, Philadelphia Inquirer (PA), June 14, 2006
Five months after taking a trip to South Africa subsidized by an education-software firm, two Philadelphia School District officials signed off on a $926,000 no-bid contract with that company. The 10-day excursion in June 2004, which included a safari and a dinner hosted by a Zulu king, was paid for in part by Plato Learning Inc., one of the nation's biggest education software dealers.