According to the audit, “The current procurement process relies heavily on the integrity of each procurement staff. The process does not have checks and balances in place.”
Every contract reviewed had problems
According to the separate State Auditor’s Office audit, every single one of 28 contracts it reviewed, and which the commission awarded in the past 2 ¼ years, had problems.
Five that accounted for $3.4 billion of value had “significant evaluation scoring errors and missing documentation,” the Legislature’s audit said.
They include not only the CHIP contract for rural areas, but a $3 billion managed care contract in Medicaid known as STAR Kids. Under the new program, rolled out in late 2016, about 6,000 severely disabled children enrolled in the Medically Dependent…
