Even More Problems with No Bid Contracts!
by jonpelto
Earlier this year, Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, used a series of no bid contracts to retain outside consultants to help him develop and implement Governor Malloy’s “education reform bill.”
More recently we learned that Paul Vallas, Bridgeport’s $229,000 interim Superintendent of Schools, signed multiple no-bid contracts to hire more than a dozen consultants, many of them who work for Vallas’ private consulting business, The Vallas Group.
The response from most public officials has been silence.
But Ken Dixon, the Connecticut Post reporter who first broke the story on Commissioner Pryor’s use of no-bid contracts, last spring, has now learned that when one of Pryor’s
