According
to the Times Leader: W-B owes $30,000 for bid violations
COSTARS again? I don’t know Butch perhaps you could have looked at the COSTARS Bid sheet FIRST! Just a thought!
Not
following the Bid process! Well
- That’s just the way it is in Wilkes Barre.
Let’s see
we didn’t ask for bids when we bought Fire Trucks, and when reporters asked, the King said
we didn’t need to, we used COSTARS, a state
program that includes vendors who have been pre-approved to sell items to
municipalities statewide
But upon further investigation the state said Liar, Liar Pants on Fire!
But upon further investigation the state said Liar, Liar Pants on Fire!
Then
when the King and his shyster buddy, cooked up the idea to hire him and his family, so they could sell the city’s parking authority down the river, because he can’t seem to find
work in the private sector.
We didn't put that work out for bid either, but hey
the parking authority isn’t technically owned by the city so it’s all good!
Now at
the cost of $30,000 to the city taxpayers, for not following the bid process, the King and Butch say things like we
didn’t know!
- “When we purchase these products, it’s very difficult to know exactly where you are going to land,” Frati said.
I
guess it would be too much to ask of Butch, to just look at how much we used in
previous years and guess that we always go over $10.000!
- Frati said cold patch also does not have a long shelf life!
I
guess the stuff is like MILK!
- Frati said the vendor in this case, American Asphalt, was approved to sell certain items under COSTARS, but asphalt was not one of them. The city mistakenly believed that product was included, Frati said.
COSTARS again? I don’t know Butch perhaps you could have looked at the COSTARS Bid sheet FIRST! Just a thought!
- “We keep as close an eye on it as we can, but if we go over it, we go over,” Frati said.
Hey
it’s not like the $30,000 is coming out of Butch’s pocket, RIGHT
Wake
Up Wilkes Barre
Bill the Mayor and J.J. for the security systems, and that will cover at least half of the bid violation debt....
ReplyDeleteThe so called King should have to pay that out of his pocket let him get his buddy JJ who is making booca bucks to help him pay it.
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