Kansas has authorized 1,000 no-bid contracts worth a half-billion dollars

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1. State is full of thieves..

Bypassing certain businesses that aren't their buddy. This is how
kansaas business is like so many other rightwinger screw the
taxpayers states. Competition? Hell, can't water down bids
with competition..

Proponents say sometimes only a single company is capable of doing the work. But others contend more oversight is needed and that more competitive bidding would drive down prices and save tax dollars.

Agencies can skip competitive bidding through a process called prior authorization. That requires the head of the agency and the director of purchases in the Department of Administration to certify that forgoing competitive bidding is in the best interest of the state.

The process leaves companies and individuals interested in competing for the work only a week to object. And they usually don't: Information from the Kansas Department of Administration shows no one protested more than 1,000 transactions that bypassed competitive bidding over the past eight years.