I wanted to give a quick update about the post from last night about the million dollars we’re spending to develop a web site for the Government Accountability Board that has so far, drawn a huge amount of interest.

I’ve been spending the morning digging through a tangle of State web sites to find Request for Proposal (RFP) that every State agency is required to issue for projects and the responses to that RFP. All documents should be public record.

I should point out as a State employee myself who’s been through an RFP process, I am no newbie to the system and it still took me nearly three hours to even find the actual bidding information for the RFP for the CFIS web site, which you can find here in PDF format.

While the RFP is that State’s document for saying what they want, I was more interested in seeing the response to the RFP from the company who ultimately ended up getting the contract for $1 million, PCC Technology Group of Manchester CT.

While I haven’t been able to come across that document yet, I’ve been able to discover that at least on the State’s vendor web site, they weren’t listed as one of the 396 companies on the official bidder list.

What I  have found so far is that the CFIS web site for the Government Accountability Board isn’t the only agency in Wisconsin who they may do business with, and there’s a very realy possibility that this out of State company is on the receiving end of much more than the $1 million for the laughable CFIS web site that still has an image of the Minneapolis  skyline on it nearly three days after this story broke.

I don’t often play the watchdog role here on my own web site, but the more I find out about this, the more deeply concerned I am not only as a technology expert, but also as a tax paying resident of this State. And if there’s anything I hate, it’s getting fleeced – especially when it’s happening in one of my areas of expertise.

So I’m going to keep digging around a bit and will continue to post whatever I find here.

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