Paul Vallas’ No Bid Contract with the Public Consulting Group - Wait, What?

Paul Vallas’ No Bid Contract with the Public Consulting Group - Wait, What?:

Paul Vallas’ No Bid Contract with the Public Consulting Group

by jonpelto

It is a familiar tune.

When Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas arrived in Bridgeport, he quickly signed a series of no-bid contracts.

One was with the Public Consulting Group (PCG), a company that he had done business with when he was the CEO of the Chicago School System and again when he was the CEO of the Philadelphia Schools.  In fact, PCG even features the Chicago and Philadelphia projects on its website.

Word of the contract came when a memo arrived from Team Vallas announcing that the school system would be dropping the software that the Bridgeport Schools had been