{"id":778,"date":"2009-10-19T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:05:20","slug":"oops-missouri-lt-governor-awards-contract-to-company-under-state-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/oops-missouri-lt-governor-awards-contract-to-company-under-state-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops: Missouri Lt. Governor Awards Contract to Company Under State Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of those head-scratchers. According to ksdk.com:<\/p>\n

Missouri’s Lieutenant Governor is calling for the immediate cancellation of a state contract after the I-Team exposed an embarrassing issue for Governor Jay Nixon’s administration.<\/p>\n

The state awarded the estimated million-dollar contract to Office Depot, a company under investigation for allegations of bait and switch, deceptive pricing, and over-charging. Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, the Department of Education, the General Accounting Administration, the Department of Justice and the SEC, have investigations into the office giant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to its 2009 second-quarter report, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Office Depot is under investigation in Florida, Texas, Missouri, Colorado, California and Ohio.<\/p>\n

So basically, the Lt. Governor went ahead and offered a million dollars to a company that was being investigated for fraud…in that state. <\/em>While the state has halted the contract pending further investigation, it’s still a bit of a black eye for whoever authorized that purchase order.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, Office Depot crusader David Sherwin appears in the article as well, saying basically the same thing. Maybe he should come work for us.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The state of Missouri accidentally offers a million-dollar contract to Office Depot, then remembers it is investigating them for fraud. Whoopsie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133,11,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-box-news","category-government-purchasing","category-smart-purchasing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7341,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}