UPPER MALRBORO, Md. (FOX 5 DC) - Prince George’s Co. Public Schools is not following state law or its own policies when it comes to awarding millions of dollars in contracts, according to a state audit on the school system’s financial management.
FOX 5 has learned the school district’s director of purchasing is no longer employed as of Friday.
According to the audit by the Department of Legislative Services, the contracts in question total nearly $85 million.
According to the report, “the required justification was not documented for 13 of the 15 sole source contracts we tested totaling $6.8 million and PGCPS had not documented the benefits from one ICPA (intergovernmental cooperative purchasing agreement) contract“ valued at $34.8 million over five years.
The audit also found 32 contracts totaling $43.1 million were not submitted to the Board of Education for approval as required. Two of those contracts were awarded to vendors that were either not the most qualified or the lowest cost bidders, according to the audit.
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6 comments:
They learned at the Catherine Pugh School of Graft and Bribery.
Ho hum, more corruption in PG County. Follow the $$ and root out everybody who got or was going to get a taste.
There should be a news network devoted to PG county corruption.
It's easy to spend money when it's not yours ! This country needs a total restructuring of how our governments operate !
Every public office in PG county needs to have an annual independent audit. There are more public money thieves there than in the entire rest of the state.
PG County, the Western MD's Salisbury!
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