Lege Trend: County Contracting Restrictions.

The home page of Governing Magazine features this headline: 

Motorola Gets (Another) No-Bid Contract with Texas County.

The County is Harris. The Contract amount is $7.5 million. Harris County is justifying theno-bid contract because it piggy backed onto a contract that Motorola had received through competitive bidding.

News clips, bill filings, and Governor Abbott press release have all raised concerned about no-bid contracts. See Nelson’s SB 353

As state contracting is under the microscope, local government contracts are prepping their slides for a turn under the microscope.  Governing