An audit of 28 contract awards worth $4.6 billion found the process riddled with errors, from scoring to documentation. Five of the contracts, worth $3.4 billion, had so many errors it was impossible to verify their accuracy, according to the report.
The commission currently has no permanent leader. Its former commissioner, Charles Smith, retired in May, shortly after the agency canceled five CHIP contracts in April due to contracting issues.
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