Two R.I. companies — Simpatico Software Systems and Ananke IT Solutions — accuse the state of mishandling bidding process for system to identify wasteful social-services spending.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Within Rhode Island’s $9.6-billion state budget, at least some spending is assumed to be wasteful or fraudulent.
How much and what? Officials in Gov. Gina Raimondo’s administration, like their predecessors, have endeavored to find out, but the search over the last three years has been more complicated than expected.
Twice since 2016 the state has sought to buy a data-mining computer system for detecting waste and fraud across government agencies and twice officials have abandoned potential purchases after complaints that the selection process itself was fraudulent.
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