County council battles over bid / Highest bidder OK'd, drawing criticism from administrators.
Source: By SARAH CASSI, The Express-Times (PA), Thursday, June 28, 2007
EASTON | Northampton County administrators are up in arms over county council's refusal to reject bids for a county information technology contract, a move officials contend could have saved $850,000.
Three companies bid for the four-year IT contract: Computer Aid Inc. of Allentown, $9,151,000; CMC Americas, Baton Rouge, La., $9,287,652; and Affiliated Computer Services of Dallas, $10,002,873.
...... Fiscal Affairs Director Vic Mazziotti asked council to reject all three bids and rebid the contract. Instead, council voted 7-1 last week to keep the Affiliated Computer Services bid, the most expensive of the three.