Orange County Revisits Procurement Policy Amid IT Contract Controversy

Published on December 12, 2023

Orange County attorney Richard Golden told a special legislative committee on Dec. 11 that a review of procurement policy and contract administration practices was underway with a goal to improve both. “The executive branch certainly has been clear from this committee’s work and some of the questions that our procurement policy can be improved upon and that our contracts administration, including payments of invoices, needs to be further addressed,” Mr. Golden said. The said committee, formerly called the Committee to Review Information Technology Contracts, was formed on Nov. 2 to look into corruption allegations surrounding a hefty county contract with StarCIO. Mr. Golden told The Epoch Times that the policy and practice review by the county government did not negate its earlier stance that the StarCIO contract was legally acted upon....

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