READING EAGLE Editorial: Beaver County Rep. Rob Matzie was absolutely right to question why the Corbett administration awarded a no-bid contract, which he claimed could net the subsidiary of a Kansas-based firm hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade.
In a letter to state Attorney General Kathleen Kane and Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, both Democrats, Matzie, also a Democrat, said the 456-page contract appears to give NIC Inc. the right to process credit cards for new or existing electronic transactions with the commonwealth for up to 10 years.
The contract is a five-year pact to manage the state’s website infrastructure and technology, but Matzie said nothing in the agreement prevents NIC and the Corbett administration from imposing fees on every transaction residents make with state government… (more)
