State Aims to Reform Contract Process ; Officials Look to Get Rid of Scandal, Shoddy Work
New Haven Register › March 24, 2009
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In a decade riddled with scandals involving private companies bribing state officials or botching costly public jobs, only one major contractor has been banned from bidding on state contracts.
Connecticut has three different systems for disqualifying corrupt or incompetent contractors, but officials say the procedures are so agonizingly slow and complicated, they're almost impossible to use.See the full content of this document
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State Aims to Reform Contract Process ; Officials Look to Get Rid of Scandal, Shoddy Work
State officials, including Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, say the General Assembly must enact reforms to make it easier to get rid of bad contractors.
"Stronger measures to prevent irresponsible contractors from performing or receiving state work will be part of a contracting- reform package I will present to the Ge...See the full content of this document
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